Faced with political oblivion in the last parliament, Osborne reached for
the same old tool box with Funding for Lending, Help to Buy and other wheezes.
For more than forty years Ackling has made all of his work by the
same method: focusing sunlight through a magnifying glass to burn lines of tiny dots onto found and rescued materials: bits of driftwood, scraps of card, or most recently the contents of his garden shed: discarded wooden
boxes and the handles of
old tools.