With these role models, go figure why we lack integrity

Maurice O'Brien • Published 3 Feb 2012 09:00

WAS anyone surprised to learn from last week's Essex University study on integrity that over the last decade we've become a nation of liars and cheats?

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  Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary: February, 2 2012

  It's back to bashing bankers this week and Fred Goodwin and Stephen Hester have been the chief targets. The public is still very upset by what happened in 2008 and the fall out since. There's a feeling that we're paying for the financial crisis but bankers are not. So the chance to kick a banker is too good an opportunity to miss.

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  Too much council bureaucracy spoils a fine county

  ON THE borders somewhere there are probably still one or two rusting signs welcoming travellers to the Royal County of Berkshire.