As both Cecil Rhodes and Rudyard Kipling said (simultaneously) “To be born English is to win first in the lottery of life”. Unfortunately in the many years of my wheelings and indeed dealings I have never, I repeat never come across a lottery called the lottery of life. In deference to its non-existence I decided to make an investment, using Societal funds, in the national lottery on the hope that having already been born English the winning of the first prize (henceforth jackpot) would be a shoo in. I made the transaction with purveyor of dreams and it was explained to me that the jackpot was a clean £4 million. I personally have no concept of how much this actually is, The President told me that it could secure our debts for another year, The Secretary explained that with these resources