The dastardly Mr Deedes

Barclays’ shareholder meeting was disrupted yesterday by attention-seeking students demanding the bank ditch its funding of fossil fuels. storming into Westminster’s hideous QEII Centre, they chanted: ‘Hey-hey, ho-ho, climate change has got to go.’ Were we too hasty in ditching Boris Johnson’s £300,000 water cannons? Perhaps Barclays could be arm-twisted into sponsoring new ones. Whither Dominic Chappell, 51, the preposterous, thrice bankrupt exBHS owner and alleged member of the ‘SAS helicopter squad’? Neighbours in Dorset say he drives around in three different Range Rovers, telling anyone who’ll listen he now consults for a cosmetics brand called CID. Says a local mole: ‘I saw him buying lunch recently in the Langton Arms near Blandford. His credit card was declined, naturally.’ Forget sainsbury’s and Asda rebranding after their proposed £15bn merger as Asburys or sainsda. The sainsbury clan, who retain a 6pc holding in the supermarket, would never entertain such an idea. They’re an eye-rollingly haughty bunch. When Arcadia tycoon sir Philip Green once made enquiries about taking over the grocer, the family consigliere pompously informed him: ‘remember the name over the door.’ Gawky Bank of England chief economist Andrew Haldane, 50, often invites ridicule with his eccentric, out-ofthe box thinking. His head scratching suggestion that our musical choices offer insight into consumer confidence is a case in point. Hawkish ex-Bank of England Monetary Committee member Andrew Sentance’s withering verdict: ‘Pretty compelling evidence the Bank of England has truly lost its way under Mark Carney and Andy Haldane.’ Latest beard alert: Goldman sachs’s former European chief Michael sherwood, 51, now enjoying retirement and his £185m fortune, has grown a grizzly, tightly-manicured number. Horrid. on a happier note, the table tennis-mad ‘norf’ Londoner has also shed his heaving avoirdupois. so less of the ‘ Fat Mike’ jibes please, people.