Hillary Clinton, who I still find it hard to believe will become President of the United States, announces that she intends to have her raddled husband, Bill, advise on the economy should she be elected.

Mr Clinton sat down in 1999 with Alan Greenspan, then head of the Federal Reserve Bank, and urged on him a policy to enable more people to become homeowners, in order to help Al Gore, his vice-president, get elected the following year. Thus were the sub-prime crisis and the great economic crash of 2008 set in train. It would be safer to put Bill in charge of women’s welfare, frankly.