Barack Obama thought David Cameron was a “lightweight” after their first meeting; a former Labour minister was a “hound dog with women”, and Prince Andrew put his “mouth before brain”. These are just some of the revelations contained in more than 250,000 cables sent by US diplomatic staff and released into the public domain by the controversial whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks in the past week.

And now it's the turn of big business. In early 2011, Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, will be shining the spotlight on a major American bank with the publication of tens of thousands of internal documents, Forbes Magazine reported yesterday http://bit.ly/ifjQM8.