What's left to rely on?

Barry Parr asks just what can trustees put their faith in?

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It is ironic that discovery of the Higgs boson, or God particle, was announced on the same day as Bob Diamond appeared before the Treasury Committee to answer for his bank's involvement in the LIBOR rate-rigging scandal.

It seems the secrets of the physical universe are more easily accepted by many than the realities of man’s behaviour in our daily world. Surely we are not surprised that in the midst of a crisis Ba...

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