Crikey - the new chief economist of the Bank of England is younger than my first-born
Actually the same can be said of at least one Cabinet Minister, who struggles to be taken seriously.
This is proper grown up stuff
It is odd how some men carry weight, both literally & metaphorically, by the time they get to 40. And I do not necessarily mean overweight. Some may be showing the beginnings of a comfortable corporation, but mostly it seems to come from a deepening of the torso & a strengthening of the jaw
Mind you, some of them change from lissom youth to hulk at an alarmingly early age. One of the things that adds to my scepticism about the health-bringing value of sport is that someone like Lawrence Dallaglio looks, in his photos at least, like a man in his 50s
