Few people would have taken a greater sense of schadenfreude out of watching four top bankers squirm in front of today’s Treasury select committee than me. I have, in my fledgling career, been rendered frequently aghast at some of these so-called ‘masters of the universe’ and their overpowering scent of manly hubris. Sir Fred ‘The Shred’ Goodwin, Sir Tom McKillop (RBS), Andy Hornby and Lord Stevenson had combined annual salaries of £7.5m yet their apparent mismanagement and aggressive expansionism cost the British taxpayer £37bn in the same time. Goodwin, who many blamed for the spectacular fall in RBS shares after his pig-headed takeover of Dutch bank ABN AMRO, got £2.9m in bonuses in 2007. No wonder this is emotive stuff and I would forgive…