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MARKET ECONOMICS:Newsnight’s economics editor Paul Mason was at the front line when the first economic bombs began to fall and, as he sees it, neo-liberalism fell apart

THE FRONTLINE club in London is where all journalists should hang out, preferably dressed in trench coats and trilbies, while lugging down a pre-lunch sharpener. Its walls are lined with iconic photojournalism from the world’s war zones and the old wooden bar looks like it’s been there since Boot was despatched to Abyssinia. The place is a paean to reporting and, more than anything in this age of Google journalism, it celebrates the importance of being there – seeing the look in people’s eyes when you ask them: ‘What happened?’