The Gods that Failed shows how a reckless, largely unaccountable elite, have lulled the world to sleep with their economic fairytale and that now, with the fairytale having being exposed, ordinary people are waking up in a world of financial hardship.

Even though this elite subcontracted the job of reading bedtime stories to their own children to an army of nannies, they were more than happy to tell fairytales to everybody else, tales in which everyone lives happily ever after.

The Times reported yesterday that as a result of these financial fairytales, nanny agencies have been inundated with calls in recent weeks, as stay-at-home parents are forced to return to work just to make ends meet.