The best of Alex 2005

More tales of executive greed and duplicity from the business pages of the Daily Telegraph.

After a year on the dole Alex has finally got himself a job back in a now unfamiliar City of London, which these days is run by compliance officers, lawyers and foreigners.

But worse is to come. To our hero's dismay his new boss turns out to be an ex-colleague, the wimpish and ineffectual Clive, and Alex has to face up to the humiliation of grovelling to his former friend in order to secure himself a