Commiserations to Jamie Oliver,

who said fears over his collapsing restaurant empire “ruined” his 40th birthday. Slightly more commiserations to the 1,000 people jobless as a result, without a multimillion pound fortune and TV career to fall back on and who, unlike Oliver with five children and a couple of houses, will have ruined more than one day worrying about losing the roof over their heads and feeding their kids.