The Guardian view on the HSBC files: a damning dossier

The use of Swiss accounts to dodge tax was systematic. The flaky response from the bank and the politicians is anything but "Values," wrote the Rev Prebendary Stephen Green, "go beyond 'what you can get away with'." Reassuring words from the part-time priest who for years ran one of the world's biggest banks, before being brought into government by David Cameron. Courtesy of the HSBC files, however, we now know that this bank, when under his stewardship - first as chief exec, later as chair - wa...