The dastardly Mr Deedes
pro-Brexit campaigner paul Marshall is ranked in the world’s top 25 hedge funders by alpha magazine, with earnings of £100m last year. tufty-haired Marshall certainly makes an unusual ‘master of the universe’. despite the party’s hostility towards hedgies, he’s a lifelong Liberal democrat and once worked for late leader Charlie Kennedy. he even agreed to advise nick Clegg during the coalition, a lapse that doesn’t appear to have damaged his career prospects. What many don’t know about Marshall, 56, is that his hirsute son Winston, 27, plucks the banjo for genteel folk rockers Mumford & Sons.
After recently being spotted in San Jose, former Marks and Spencer boss Marc Bolland and his ferret-like successor Steve Rowe, 47, met with the Prince of Wales on Monday. High Street retailers don’t usually get such a royal seal of approval, but M&S has cleverly positioned itself by working with the Prince’s Trust and embracing many of Charles’s environmental initiatives. Plus Bolland, 57, and Charles have much in common. They share a fondness for fine tailoring, blasting pheasants and fretting about the future.
Former UBS trader tom hayes, currently serving an 11-year sentence for manipulating Libor rates, has turned to crowdfunding to raise £150,000 for his appeal. Shy, quietly spoken hayes, 35, unkindly dubbed ‘rain Man’ by his colleagues after the savant played by dustin hoffman in the 1988 film, has so far drummed up £16,890. his biggest donation is £500 from Guardian Care homes boss Gary hartland. ironically, the businessman, 54, is currently suing Lloyds in a multi-millionpound claim related to Libor fixing.
The Bank of England’s brainbox chief operating officer Charlotte Hogg has agreed to ride in the Magnolia Cup at Glorious Goodwood. Other entrants to the charity sprint in July include TalkTalk’s pixyish boss Dido Harding, 48. As a keen horsewoman, auburn-haired Hogg, 45, will be muchfancied to win. I’m also advised her petite frame will be ideally suited to the tricky Sussex downs track.
employees at British home Stores have launched the slogan #SaveBhS in a bid to rescue the beleaguered retailer. Confusingly, twitter is clogged up with an identical hashtag aimed at saving Bridgewater high School over the pond in nova Scotia. poor creatures just can’t catch a break, can they?