The Dastardly Mr Deedes

The Court of the Bank of England seeks a new chairman now City gran formaggio Sir Anthony Habgood, 71, is stepping down in June. The successful candidate, who will play a key role drafting Mark Carney’s successor as governor, must be a heavy hitter. A Cabinet Office advertisement states only chairmen or chiefs of FTSE 100 companies need apply. The salary’s a mere £48,000 with no attractive extracurricular perks, so out-on-his-ear Sir Martin Sorrell, 73, won’t be interested.

Re Sir Moneybags, WPP’s hitherto anonymous chairman Roberto Quarta proved a ruthless operator in overseeing the deposed advertising mogul’s swift defenestration. Small wonder the scrappy New Yorker, 68, was known during his penny-pinching private equity days as ‘Spare no Quarta’.

Elfin-like BBC presenter and former City journalist Naga Munchetty, 43, looked a vision in a red dress and matching Christian Louboutin clackers compering the World Retail Congress yesterday in Madrid. Shame on the ungallant Spanish organisers who inappropriately arranged for her to arrive on stage to the opening strains of Jimi Hendrix’s Foxy Lady.

Affable Leon founder John Vincent, 46, says he invites his healthy fast food chain’s staff to stay for a get-together each year at his West Sussex home. He says: ‘So many people came last time they were camping in the garden.’ Doubtless they’re keen to offer menu suggestions, though one imagines Vincent’s enchanting wife, TV presenter Katie Derham, 47, is also quite a draw.

An email from a mid-level manager at investment bank Moelis & Co castigating junior staff for not being at their desks at 2am has been leaked online. The unnamed banker writes: ‘I know you are all very stretched but the only way I can think of to differentiate among you is to see who is in the office in the wee hours of the morning.’ Life at Moelis is notoriously tough, but not without reward. Average basic pay in its London office last year was £307,000.