The Dastardly Mr Deedes
Barclays have informed staff they must declare any office romances as City firms struggle to respond to the current #MeToo hoo-ha. According to Financial News, employees are now required to inform their boss of ‘changes to personal relationships which may be relevant to their role’. What business is it of theirs who sees who? Sounds like one for our busybody friends over in Brussels to take a peek at.
The Financial Conduct Authority have hired camp-as-Christmas television stylist Gok Wan to front an instructional video urging customers to pursue PPI claims before next year’s deadline. Why was the Gok, 44, chosen, I wonder? He’s hardly renowned for his fiscal expertise. Perhaps the FCA’s cerebral boss Andrew Bailey’s a fan.
Motormouthed ex-Crystal Palace owner Simon Jordan was absent from his weekly Talksport show last night after spending his weekend recuperating from a burst appendix. Bling bling Jordan, 51, who lost a hefty chunk of his fortune when Palace went into administration in 2010, is having a shaky year. A recent visit to south London saw an armed robber relieve him of his expensive wristwatch.
He reflected ruefully: ‘The last time I left Croydon it cost me fifty million quid; the next time I go back there it costs me a hundred grand watch.’
The pro-Remain Financial Times welcomes Jo Johnson’s resignation from the Cabinet over Theresa May’s Brexit strategy, heralding his resignation as a ‘salutatory warning’. They hail the ex-
Transport Minister as the ‘more serious’ member of the attention-prone Johnson clan. Bit of background: JoJo, 46, is a former associate editor of the FT.
Is the Victoria’s Secret phenomenon on the wane? Sales of the luxury undercrackers designer have been in decline since 2016. Its televised annual runway show, where leading models (‘angels’) parade around in saucy undergarments, now looks creepy and outdated during these sexually sensitive times. Meanwhile, the brand’s debonair chief executive Ed Razek, 70, has angered snowflakes by telling Vogue he didn’t think transsexuals should be cast in the show. Tin hats on!