Andrew Goodwin: Consumer Duty and good outcomes - hope springs eternal

The name Dyson is nowadays most likely to conjure up images of vacuum cleaners. As someone with a modest background in number-crunching, I instead prefer to think of mathematician and theoretical physicist Freeman John Dyson. A member of Princeton's illustrious Institute for Advanced Study, Dyson came up with all sorts of amazing scientific ideas during his 96 years. His contributions spanned disciplines including astrophysics, quantum field theory, engineering, biotechnology and interstellar travel.  Of all his wonderful outputs, though, my favourite is nothing more than a pithy quot...