The dastardly Mr Deedes
JP Morgan’s cocksure chief Jamie Dimon is under pressure to resign from Donald Trump’s business council, after the President was criticised for his reaction to the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. ‘Spineless’ was a word commonly bandied around social media yesterday. Might the furore have consequences for Dimon’s rumoured presidential ambitions? ex-Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, a big voice in the Democrat party, scathingly announced that Dimon should feel ‘ashamed’ for his association with the White house.
Chancellor Philip Hammond has recruited Sky News producer Giles Winn to join his team of media advisers. When Hammond’s predecessor George Osborne hired BBC producer Thea Rogers, she inspired his pudding bowl haircut and encouraged him to adopt the fashionable 5:2 diet. No doubt metrosexual Giles has his own daring vision for ‘Box Office Phil’ in mind.
Barclays offers this summer’s most lucrative internship, paying those fortunate to have earned a place on the scheme £3,343 a month. JPMorgan is just behind, paying £3,000. A report yesterday tried to claim people were being put off applying to work in the City – because of Brexit, sur- prise, surprise. With inducements like this, I find that somewhat hard to believe.
Writing in the Telegraph, former HSBC chairman Lord Green, 68, says Theresa May could learn from Germany’s Angela Merkel, whose election campaign has made particular appeals to young voters. While in charge at HSBC, Green presided over a multi-million pound culture of money laundering and tax evasion. Already weary of City types, the PM may heed any of his Lordship’s advice, however well-intended, with particular caution.
The FT’s daft how To Spend It magazine recommends a £300 Claude Dozorme Napoleon Champagne Sabre, an ornate 20inch blade for removing champagne corks, described as ‘the perfect gift for the man who has everything.’ Sounds just the pressie for bubbly-spraying billionaire Sir Philip Green, whose daughter Chloe’s thuggish new boyfriend, so-called ‘hot criminal’ Jeremy Meeks, is said to be giving him the vapours.