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November 26, 2008

Ephraim Hardcastle’s soft spot for ‘Jimmy Krankie’ historian Ferguson

The Daily Mail’s Ephraim Hardcastle is puzzled by TV critic AA Gill’s attack on the new Channel 4 series, The Ascent of Money.

Written and presented by Niall Ferguson, it is, says Gill, ‘a GCSE-class project’while ‘wee’Ferguson is ‘academe’s answer to Jimmy Krankie”. 

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