EP's Friday Light Relief

Cold call to the Bank of EnglandDouglas Bader anecdoteCar Crash Lord Bell interview Tom Newton Dunn: "Tim Bell is being flayed alive for his deceit over the Guptas on @Newsnight now. The once great Bell Pottinger is dying live on air. For someone supposed to be a PR legend, that was truly diabolical. Can't remember watching a bigger car crash."   Mary Ann Sieghart‏: "And Tim Bell is an expert in reputation management? #Newsnight"Alastair Stewart‏: "Enter A.N.Wilson; Kim Jong-un still hanging on in there..."   Adam Sherwin‏ "This would be worst pub lock-in ever #newsnight"   For reference the programme included the Lord Bell car crash and UKIP leadership candidates Anne Marie Waters and Peter Whittle.Only 11% of Brits have a zombie plan There are two types of people in this world: those with a zombie plan and those without a zombie plan (or as the latter group are also known, dinner).   A previous YouGov survey found that 6% of Brits think the government should be developing realistic contingency plans for a zombie outbreak.“Lunch with FT” from 1995 The 79 year old poet Gavin Ewart had a liquid lunch at the Café Royal with the FT. The next day Mrs Ewart phones:   “There are two things you need to know” she says “firstly Gavin came home yesterday happier than I have seen him in a long time. The second- and you are not to feel bad about this- is that he died this morning.”B&B owners reveal the books most frequently left behind.This year’s permanent guests on B&B bookshelves:

• Dan Brown
• E L James
• Les Dennis
• Robert Ludlum
• Paula Hawkins
• Nigel Farage
• Donald Trump
• Wayne Rooney
• JK Rowling
• Jo Jo Moyes

One owner said that he had tried to take left-behind copies of the Da Vinci Code and Fifty Shades of Grey to a local charity bookshop but that the shop had a “No Shades and no Code, thanks” sign in the window.