Anthony Hilton: One man who is taking on the bankers  Robert
Jenkins is committed to challenging the excesses of the banking
industry.  It is almost impossible today to imagine what it was
like in the Seventies when a handful of trade union leaders held
the country to ransom, routinely intimidated whoever was in
Downing Street and pursued their own self-interest to the
exclusion of everything else.  Today, we cannot imagine why as a
country we used to put up with such bullying and intimidation,
or why it took so long before we had a politician — in this case
Mrs Thatcher — with the courage to face them down.  But we ought
to understand because it has happened again. Today the bankers
hold the nation to ransom in very much the same way as the
unions did 40 years ago. The labels are different but the
behaviours are the same. Such is their sense of entitlement that
they are indifferent to the costs to society caused by their
single-minded pursuit of their own self-interest. They know they
have the power to grab