Some years budgets can be really exciting with sweeping tax cuts or dramatic gestures but this week it was fairly dull asides from the furore about the tax rise for self employed people.Why self employed people, I asked myself, then I read at article saying that George Osborne is set to earn £650,000 this year and I wondered if Phillip Hammond and Theresa May were setting up an elaborate trap for their predecessors. I’ve not looked at the detail of the budget but I’d be keen to know if there was a special levy on political speeches and ex-cabinet ministers.

It’s largely a storm in a teacup though, a pound or two per week. When I’m not doing these videos, I am actually a self employed person myself and in all honesty, whilst annoying, I half wondered if it’s a price worth paying? After all, every minute of Radio 4 that’s taken up with backbenchers discussing white vans is a minute that’s not being used to discuss Brexit. Every time they wheel out an economist to discuss NI contributions it means a whinging policy adviser will have to stay at home and keep their views on exercise or alcohol to themselves.

In the mean time though it was also International Womens’ Day this week, although from what I saw, most of the supposedly “international” women on the telly were in fact British. Or as Nicola Sturgeon would pronounce it, “English” before adding “treacherous” and demanding a referendum in much the same way that my little boy demands more toast in the mornings…