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Should we try the banks Leveson-style?

Should we try the banks Leveson-style?

by Anoosh Chakelian / 29 Jun 2012 14:17

It is a rather delicious televisual prospect - airing the dirty bespoke laundry of those all-texting, all-Bollinger-swilling bankers for the sake of innocuous British viewers and excitable headline writers to gawp and cringe. Oh, and for the sake of justice.

The parallels between the public probe into press standards and a would-be bankers’ inquiry are almost too pleasingly easy to draw.

There is the Murdochian baddie who refuses to resign, Barclays chief

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