Among my favourite parts of the book is Mr Mehta's early life in London in the swinging sixties as a callow young man, who arrives from India with a few shillings and bags of Indian tea.
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As a callow bond-trader, fresh out of college, he participated in one of the greatest of them all, in Japan in 1986, when the yield on the ten-year benchmark Japanese government bond fell to 2.5%, the discount rate at the time.
They're still a bit callow and more savvy than sophisticated, but they gather their own information and have their own notions of what is worthy.
Reviving the cabinet careers of former big-hitters such as David Blunkett and John Reid could create a helpful contrast with the callow Tories, but few seem keen to board a sinking ship.
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On Friday, Barclays economist Julian Callow wrote in a report to clients that borrowing costs are going to continue rising even as the economy slows.
Mr Callow said that while a weak yen would help boost profits of exporters, the rise in energy costs "would offset some of those gains".
Both runners up were in the BBC TV studio for the announcement on Friday along with Four Weddings and a Funeral stars Charlotte Coleman and Simon Callow.
To me - and others, such as Julian Callow, at Barclays Capital - that is sending a rather different message than we've heard before.
"It is one of those strange moves because we can't attribute it to a payrolls report or Japanese economic news, " said Sean Callow, senior currency strategist at Westpac in Sydney.
"Every decline in the yen against the US dollar means Japan is paying for more for its energy needs - it's a steep rise in costs for everybody, " said Sean Callow, senior currency strategist at Westpac.
Mr Cooksey, 54, and Ms Smith, 46, from Rodsley, Derbyshire, are still set to get married on Saturday, at Callow Hall in nearby Ashbourne, which offered to host the wedding and a drinks reception at short notice.
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