Today's [iPrivate Eye[/i states that, by 30 October 2013, Goldman Sachs owned 21.5 million shares in Royal Mail.

This can't be the same respected and trustworthy Goldman Sachs company(*) that HMG asked to handle the sell-off for them?
Nah, can't be ... I mean, that would be a conflict of interest, wouldn't it?
I must be mistaken.

(*) Or the Goldman Sachs whose tax avoidance scheme was ruled out by HMRC as illegal but were let off £10m interest by the much-missed Dave Hartnett(**).
www.theguardian.com/business/201 ... -avoidance

(**) The Dave Hartnett who knew which side his bread was buttered and did "sweetheart" deals letting off Vodafone and Starbucks from the billions in tax that they should have paid.
He left HMRC to join Deloitte ... but not to advise on tax avoidance, no sirree, absolutely not.

Today's [iPrivate Eye[/i states that, by 30 October 2013, Goldman Sachs owned 21.5 million shares in Royal Mail.

This can't be the same respected and trustworthy Goldman Sachs company(*) that HMG asked to handle the sell-off for them?
Nah, can't be ... I mean, that would be a conflict of interest, wouldn't it?
I must be mistaken.

(*) Or the Goldman Sachs whose tax avoidance scheme was ruled out by HMRC as illegal but were let off £10m interest by the much-missed Dave Hartnett(**).
www.theguardian.com/business/201 ... -avoidance

(**) The Dave Hartnett who knew which side his bread was buttered and did "sweetheart" deals letting off Vodafone and Starbucks from the billions in tax that they should have paid.
He left HMRC to join Deloitte ... but not to advise on tax avoidance, no sirree, absolutely not.