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The dastardly Mr Deedes

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Art gallery The Wallace Collection offers tickets in a fortnight’s time to ‘George IV: From Rake to Regal’, a lecture about the dandyish 19th century monarch who kept a string of mistresses. Can we expect the gallery’s wolfish chairman, Antonio HortaOsori­o, among the audience? Like His Majesty, the Lloyds chief possesses both a weakness for sharp tailoring and a keen eye for the lassies. Beefy ex-Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn, now Donald Trump’s chief economic adviser, has let it be known around Washington he’s ‘disgusted’ and ‘upset’ by the president’s handling of recent events in Charlottes­ville. So why not resign? Perhaps because Cohn’s primed to be Trump’s next chairman of the Federal Reserve. Beware expedience dressed up as virtue. Sir Richard Branson reassures those who didn’t get the exam results they were hoping for yesterday, pointing out his own lack of A-levels didn’t prohibit him setting up his Virgin empire. Fellow billionair­es, Amstrad boss Lord Sugar and Phones 4 U founder John Caudwell, have also spo- ken encouragin­gly about their lack of qualificat­ions. Wouldn’t a tycoon advocating the importance of obtaining good grades be a useful novelty? Interviewe­d over lunch by the Financial Times, owlish Federal Reserve vice-chairman Stanley Fischer, 73, paid his share of the $124 bill as strict Fed rules prohibit him accepting hospitalit­y from journalist­s. The rules aren’t quite so stringent over here. The Bank of England’s code states staff may accept modest entertainm­ent though ‘invitation­s to expensive or exclusive sporting or cultural events should not be accepted’. Regrettabl­y, not a rule that applies to our freebie-grasping MPs, as a glance at the monthly Commons register will testify. Financial advice weekly Money Marketing has appointed its new editor. His name? Justin Cash.

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