Earlier this month, a think-tank said the UK should scrap some of its bank holidays. Workshy fops that we are, we are spending far too many days a year lounging about and doing frivolous things like playing with the kids, having a lie-in and putting up shelves. This is having a deleterious effect on gross domestic product. The think-tank suggested that if we cut down, or maybe shifted some of the holidays out of the sunny months and into the depths of winter, we could be £19 billion (€23.06 billion) a year better off.