If global business leaders feel there is a growing gulf between the business agenda and the political agenda , it is because corporates are in rude financial health while governments are under the cosh .
I can 't help feeling that christianity has always thrived on persecution , and it is trying just a bit too hard to portray itself as under the cosh yet again when really it 's mostly just ignored .
With many competitors gone , impaired or under the cosh of government masters , banks that have been able to keep operating normally in global markets are already grabbing new wholesale business .