Simon English: A useful jibe from the banker at the bar
Outlook Perhaps the day before the Leveson report into media malfeasance wasn't the best time to tease the banker at the bar about the state of his profession but I decided to give it a crack.
I ask him: "Are you in any way socially useful?"
He replies. "No. Are you?"
Touché.
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