For the last two weeks a large group of mainly young people have been, quite literally, camping out in the precinct of London’s St Paul’s Cathedral. They are a part of the so-called anti-capitalist protests which have spread in an uncoordinated and haphazard way across a number of cities in the developed world.

By the oddest of coincidences I also witnessed in June similar protests in Madrid, came across by accident the equivalent near Wall Street in September and can attest to the great…..