Cheer up, it’s only a party

What’s the best way to deal with a full onslaught against your industry? A damn good party of course. ‘Despite the dismal financial outlook, Square Mile magazine held their annual Summer Party on Friday 13th for 1,000 City bankers,’ proclaims one of the most gloriously offensive press releases that Mr Steerpike has seen in long time. There were apparently ‘no signs of the dismal economy’ as bankers ‘quaffed free Iceberg Vodka and Louis Roederer champagne and were entertained by fire-breathing strippers and snake charmers’.

And, as if that was not enough, ’ex-city trader Anton Kreil, set to become the first person to execute a financial trade in space, was the special guest on the night pulling up in a blacked out Mercedes wearing a flight suit and mirrored Rayban’s.’ A legend in his own lunchtime no doubt.

Po-faced, right-on types have claimed that the shin-dig is evidence of how evil all bankers are.