Venetia Thompson

The party’s over: welcome to the City’s new puritanism

Venetia Thompson, a former broker, says that the financial sector is adjusting painfully to the new puritanism: no more champagne, opera freebies and heli-skiing trips. But, with government at the helm, we may soon come to miss the days when greed was still good

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