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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jenny Percival

Worth a look

Jackie Ashley in the Guardian says that if we want to cut City bonuses, we should start by cutting the testosterone. More women in finance would be a way to start changing banking's "disastrously aggressive, risk-taking culture", she argues.

The whole banking bonus culture is built on sand, according to Philip Johnston in the Telegraph, who says it will need much firmer foundations in the years ahead to rebuild the economy, the financial institutions and public services.

Clive Crook's worry in the FT is that politics is reducing economics to a "truly dismal science".

In the Mail, Peter Oborne is angry about Jacqui Smith's £116,000 claim for housing costs while staying with her sister. He says that Smith, who says she is acting within the rules, is perpetrating "little more than a common scam".

In a question-and-answer session with Independent readers, the new shadow business secretary, Kenneth Clarke, confides that he was in the crowd at Wembley when England won the World Cup in 1966.

Elsewhere in the Independent, Lord Goldsmith, the former attorney general, says that Britain must help the US with the problem of where to send prisoners in the Guantánamo Bay detention centre.

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