These sure are fecund days for instances of regrettable timing, and next on our (extensive) list of businesspeople whose heartless actions have betrayed their valiant words is professional company director Samantha Mostyn.

Last Monday, March 30, the boardroom veteran grandly predicted "our community will not be the same" after the coronavirus crisis because "no longer will the headline growth of GDP be the barometer for the health and resilience of our society and the economy". The tender words of someone who never in her executive career ran a profit and loss statement.