A friend of mind spotted Mark Carney and family in the cheap seats for Wolf Hall at London's Aldwych Theatre last week. He wondered whether the choice of seats was a gesture of sympathy with the majority of the population, whose real incomes, under Carney's employer George Osborne, are, shall we say, somewhat below the expensively recruited governor's. Or perhaps the play about rampaging Tudors is such a smash hit that those were the only seats available. Mind you, as my friend added with some emphasis, in tourist-filled London, even the cheap seats are quite expensive these days.
The governor has certainly been getting out and about. He was recently seen dining à deux with his predecessor Lord King, with the latter apparently doing most of the talking. Was he being given advice on the economy, or being scolded for his eccentric decision to replace cricket with rounders at the Bank of England's annual sports day?
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