Somebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was 2009. What she meant was, he was just getting his basic salary of £300,000, and no bonus. Their sense of entitlement is, in the proper sense of the word, psychotic.

The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.

The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance

The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.

People would rather earn 60 grand in an area where their neighbours earn 40, than earn 80 in an area where their neighbours earn a hundred.

Somebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was 2009. What she meant was, he was just getting his basic salary of £300,000, and no bonus. Their sense of entitlement is, in the proper sense of the word, psychotic.

The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little.