Why protest?

Just as all the anti-capitalist protesters were pitching up tents by St Paul's to protest against corporate greed, fund manager Gervais Williams was launching his new book.

Of course if the protesters had been in the area they might have tried to storm the event to raise a bit of awareness of their grumbles with the City. I don’t think any of us are too sure what the protesters are really on about or in fact if they have any solutions or demands to solve the problem as they see it. Certainly closing St Paul’s and costing the old place about £23,000 a day in lost revenue from tourists is not exactly going to help anyone. But back to Williams, who in my experience of knowing for over 20 years now is everything a fund manager should be, and the exact oppos...