The dastardly Mr Deedes

Former cBi director general Lord (Digby) Jones took to Twitter to rage against Persimmon boss Jeff Fairburn’s £110m payday, urging him to give it to charity: ‘What do you want to be Jeff? The richest guy in the graveyard? Sort it!’ He then launched an attack on Jeremy corbyn’s refusal to condemn the recent behaviour of iran’s regime. A friend remarks: ‘Digby’s always at his best after a good lunch.’

Scraggly Ineos founder Jim Ratcliffe’s classical vocab is rubbished in this month’s Oldie magazine after he claimed his company’s name is from the Latin words ‘Ineo’, meaning ‘new beginning’ and ‘Neos’, meaning ‘new and innovative’. Classics professor Peter Olive remarks: ‘Ineo does not mean new beginning at all but rather “I enter”. Neo certainly can mean “new”, but in Greek not Latin. In eos in Latin means “against them”.’ See me after school, Ratcliffe.

Burly Barclays boss Jes Staley, 61, pitched up at Downing Street yesterday to see Theresa may, sporting a black shearling-collared coat over his suit. Echoes of michael Foot’s famous donkey jacket. my sartorial expert’s verdict: ‘Fine for Davos, but way, way too ‘cazh’ to wear for meeting the Prime minister.’

Jean Paul Getty’s meanness is pivotal to Sir Ridley Scott’s new thriller, All The Money In The World. Getty kept a payphone for guests to use at his Surrey manor. Other skinflints down the years include oil man HL Hunt (inspiration for Dallas baddie JR Ewing) who’d park several streets from his office to avoid a 50 cent fee, and Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, who never wore a coat out as he hated having to tip the cloakroom boy.

Former Anglo irish Bank boss David Drumm, 51 who moved to canada after its collapse in 2008, appeared in a Dublin court yesterday charged with conspiracy to defraud. The jury lost seven members after the judge excused them from serving. cheeky nick Leeson, 50, who legged it from Singapore after his rogue trading sunk Barings in 1993, tweets: ‘i’m available.’