EU's competition commissioner, evidently agrees: she said last week that banking would be among the first targets of a unit she is setting up in Brussels to bash cartels.
Facility directors, she says, have now been warned to expect Chechens driving up to the gates and trying to bash their way through, and Russia is also heeding American requests to concentrate the most dangerous nuclear materials in fewer sites.
Politicians these days, especially Senators Obama and Clinton, routinely bash the oil companies and call for more efforts to come up with cleaner alternative fuels.
Johnson added that he was "perfectly within his rights to have a bash at me" after he was quizzed about being fired from The Times for making up a quote while working as a journalist.