This is getting to the point where the only pretention to veracity and substance lies in the "journalist's" smooth performance; here, in defining a tightly-defined group of top earners who owe their bread to the business world as "the public".

The Economist does this kind of thing without batting an eyelid, and has done so for years now. It's a measure of the continuing decline of the FT that it, too, will soon be totally indistinguishable from a propaganda rag.

But, erm, <cough>, are they worried about something in Davos, or what?