As bankers try to regain our trust, enter the self-serving chancers

Britian is in the midst of a full-blown crisis of collapsed productivity, lack of investment and chronic inability to compete I sometimes ask people who they think are the worst British businessmen of the last couple of decades. This is ongoing research for a book I have in mind - working title: Not-very-eminent Elizabethans - on the people behind the bad deals and ill-thought-through decisions that have laid British business so low. One consistent nomination for worst ever British businessman i...