Today's subject is not a question of left and right. Condemnation of the financial world's purely speculative activity, without any relationship with the real economy, has been damning and contemptuous from figures right across the political spectrum. This column has quoted the positions taken by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, which have been as radical as those expressed by figures on the left. This week, the strongest positions taken, to my knowledge, have come from two different camps: an MEP...