Eighties TV nuisance Russell Grant dropped Taxation a line today.

No, really.

The 58-year-old star-gazer wished to let it be known that 'more and more business owners are turning to psychics', after finding themselves under the cosh of the recession.

The knitwear enthusiast with a love of Uranus added that the hiring by firms of self-styled clairvoyants is 'not unusual'. (I knew he was gonna say that.)

Purveyors of mystic mumbo-jumbo 'are usually employed to suss out prospective employees, solve mysteries within the workplace, or indeed work hand-in-hand with astrologers and financial directors to plot the business moving forward'.

So, the sort of jobs that can be carried out by accountants, tax advisers and lawyers - all of whom offer the sort of identifiable, quantifiable results that were curiously absent from Mr Grant's press release.

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