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The real bonus for workers is in being treated properly

Just when you thought “bonus” was a dirty word, along comes the John Lewis Partnership to remind us that it ain’t necessarily so.

We’d barely recovered from the apoplexy brought on by the news that 100 investment bankers at loss-making, taxpayer-owned Royal Bank of Scotland would be loading their barrows with £1m bonuses.