If you don’t want to be treated as crooks, stop mugging your high-street customers here please

Martin Vander Weyer’s Any Other Business

‘I don’t want to be treated like a criminal,’ a senior Barclays trader told me recently, in a slightly menacing European accent. That gives you a clue that he was not Bob Diamond, the bank’s American president, or John Varley, its very English chief executive, who have both foregone cash bonuses for 2009 despite record profits of £11.6