National affairs – One.Tel collapse- shades of Fawlty Towers*

Well, Ernest Heming way did famously tell Scott Fitzgerald that the rich are different from the rest of mankind because “they have more money”, but One.Tel’s shenanigans – which resulted in a $291 million loss last year – inspire the query: are the rich that different? Was it something in their bathwater that prompted One.Tel supremos Jodie Rich and Brad Keeling to indulge in behaviour that, if you or I exhibited it, would get us hauled off to the nearest bughouse?Any novelist who dared invent…

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