The Today programme, George Osborne, and being exceedingly busy – Marketing Chap returns

It has been a terribly long time since my last column – so long in fact that I receive the occasional message from a well-wisher along the lines of, ‘Rather gasping for the next column, old bean, any word?’ or ‘What’s the ETA on the next epistle, old top?’ or even once ‘Are you still alive?’
While I have not yet shed this mortal coil (no doubt to the chagrin of many), neither do I have a terribly helpful excuse for the lack of published v