Appropriate loan sharks are normalising financial obligation and, worst of most, the national government is cosying up in their mind

Of all of the stupid, shameful things We have admitted to in this magazine – viewing The X Factor, being deeply in love with the Duchess of Cambridge – having applied for a cash advance must top all of them.

We ummmed and ahhed about exposing this for a long time, because coming to the office naked is less embarrassing, less humiliating, less ignominious than admitting that, during the period of 2 yrs, We paid nearly three grand for that Ј700 loan, financing We took down simply to pay money for a trip to Kenya I had spent Ј3,000 to (sort of) see a pride of lions, get chronic sunstroke and be bitten to buggery by a load of malarial mosquitoes so I could attend my best friend’s wedding, a marriage that dissolved within a year, meaning that, in essence. Continue reading →