The 'them and us' of a £22m pay packet

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I recently wrote a blog attempting to explain why business has managed to wrangle itself a ‘boring' tag, concluding the school curriculum, and therefore the government, was to blame.

Well, I had another little read of it the other day and it only served to remind me of another stigma attached to the industry – that investment bankers, outside of the city anyway, are often mentioned in the same breath as lawyers, ie not liked all that much. I was also reminded of it at an awards ceremony last week, in which the host, TV comic Jimmy Carr, said something along the lines of: “Well, eh? Here I am, among all these city types. Isn’t it great.” His comment hinted at what is undoubtedly true of much of the country: there is a ‘them and us’ mentality; the ‘them’ referring to ci...

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