The dastardly Mr Deeds
Stuffy former JPMorgan banker-turned Tory MP John Penrose wants to succeed Andrew Tyrie as chair of the Treasury Select Committee, the all-powerful panel which holds our financial bodies to account. In the interest of marital harmony, is this wise? Penrose, 52, shares a four poster with former TalkTalk boss Baroness Harding, who sits on the Bank of England’s remuneration committee. It’s not inconceivable she’ll be required to give evidence at some point. Diminutive ex-publisher and West Ham owner David Sullivan, 68, is offering a £25,000 reward to anyone with information regarding a break-in at his Essex home last weekend. His son Dave Jr says the intruders scarpered from the £7.5m mansion after activating the burglar alarm. Sullivan’s trophy cabinet was found empty but, much to the chagrin of his
middling football side’s supporters, it has been that way for quite some time.
Publicity-prone Virgin tycoon Sir Richard Branson is to release a new autobiography in October called Finding My Virginity. This follows his 1998 tome Losing My Virginity. Other memoirs include 2008’s Business Stripped Bare: Adventures Of A Global Entrepreneur and 2014’s The Virgin
Way: How To Listen, Learn, Laugh And Lead. Has weirdie Beardie already delighted us enough?
Jeremy Corbyn appears as bewildered as anyone by his better-thanexpected performance in the election, but even he might be shocked to discover the source of some of his support. I’m told well-remunerated graduates in Goldman
Sachs’s London offices admitted to being won over by the Labour leader’s ‘bread and circuses’ manifesto.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was a no-show at a White House technology summit yesterday. Perhaps the eccentric billionaire, 33, was having trouble locating a suit. He wears the same thing each day – jeans, a grey T-shirt and tennis shoes – which he says allows him to focus his energy on more important decisions. An odd theory, but as US commentator Charles Sykes once advised: ‘It’s best to be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.’