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TO Blackpool for the Tory Party conference. Flying the flag for financial services is the Association of Credit Unions, jointly sponsoring with doorstep lender Cattles a meeting with the downbeat title: 'A financial wilderness?' On a similar theme, Barclays sponsored a get-together asking: 'Is personal aspiration killing local communities?' More cheerily, the bank supported an event called Absolutely Equal, focusing on equality relating to age, race, gender and sexual orientation - anything other than money. But then group chief executive John Varley's base salary is Pounds 1 million, about 42 times the average of Pounds 23,580. Not quite absolutely equal, then?
WARMEST congratulations are due to art historian Carola Hicks, wife of Gadfly's old chum Gary, the renowned corporate spin doctor. In the wake of her acclaimed history of the Bayeux Tapestry comes The King's Glass, about the stained glass windows of King's College chapel in Cambridge, right.See the full content of this document
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Why Barclays Chief Is First Among Equals ; Gadfly
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