If they had an ounce of shame, Thomas Cook’s bosses would volunteer to repay the millions of pounds they have trousered in bonuses over the past decade.
If they have no conscience, we need a government that will impose a law to recover the money, because the company’s collapse will cost taxpayers a small fortune.
Corporate greed is a curse and the loss of an old established firm, one of the most famous names in the travel industry, is a tragedy.
Staff are not to blame, but thousands face redundancy, victims too of a painful collapse.
The buck should stop at the top, and chiefs who banked fabulous bonuses in good times must pay for this commercial disaster.
Organising flights to bring everybody home is not the end of this crisis. A failing corporate culture also requires action.
Labour pains
Jeremy Corbyn still has clout as Labour leader after he won crucial votes on Europe, but in truth the debates on Brexit will continue and the conclusion yesterday in Brighton may prove temporary.
Because the question of Britain’s future in the world is dynamic. Events in the Supreme Court today and the seemingly half-hearted negotiations by a Boris Johnson government threatening to push the country off a cliff are the next steps in a dangerous saga.
The Labour leader’s relief may prove short-lived. But he can still enjoy a victory which exposes the hollowness of groundless claims that he is about to be toppled.
Corbyn in Downing Street? A route exists but there will be many more twists and turns before election day, whenever it comes.
The Emm-glees
We're top of the box after storming the Emmys in the US, with the BBC’s Fleabag the first British show to win best comedy.
When Americans fall for Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s “dirty, pervy, angry and messed-up woman” then the land of bad joke Donald Trump has found a sense of humour.
