As City AM turns 20, The Capitalist turns nostalgic. Join us for a trip down business-with personality-memory lane… to the Square Mile September 2005

An incitement of the “Bra Wars”, reassurance that “it’s cool for men to carry a bag” and a warning that “Communist Capitalist is taking over the world” – reader, let me hold your hand as I take you back to City AM 2005. Though it was once suggested by an earnest office inspector that City AM dispose of its backlog of newspapers (a fire hazard, you understand), The Capitalist this week proved they were worth keeping, with a rummage through the archives proving the newspaper has indeed always been committed to its creed – business with personality, with rather the emphasis on the latter.

One particularly bold opening week gambit for the Square Mile’s public service freesheet involved a text-in........

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