The Guardian view on business ethics: decency needed | Editorial

There is a moral crisis in British capitalism that parliament on its own cannot resolveWhile parliament’s chief preoccupation is the letter of the law, it also has a duty to uphold the law’s spirit. That role is especially important in business and finance, where a tension exists between a raucous commerce that wants anything legal to be also acceptable and a broader social conception of economic activity that places certain behaviour beyond the pale, even when it is not explicitly p