The dastardly Mr Deedes

deposed stobart group boss andrew Tinkler’s bid to get re-instated to the company board receives support on Twitter from a company called M&M Racing. Reads one tweet: ‘Complete disgrace the way stobart’s Board have treated andrew Tinkler. Trying to claim credit for his great work nOT THEIRs.’ says another: ‘The on-going board has nO credibility at all, andrew Tinkler has lots of associates because he is honourable.’ strong stuff. Who is M&M? a Cumbrianbased horse racing syndicate it appears. sole director: One andrew Tinkler... Vulpine ex-Football Association boss Adam Crozier’s brazen rise as the City’s grandest fromage – he now holds four chairmanships – will surprise few England footballers of the Sven-Goran Eriksson era. After victories, he’d impudently stride onto the pitch to congratulate everyone as though he were the side’s tactical mastermind. Remember disgraced goldman sachs trader, self- styled Fabrice ‘Fabulous Fab’ Tourre, convicted in 2014 for defrauding investors in a complex sub-prime mortgage deal? He’s resurfaced at Chicago’s northwestern University teaching in the economics department. Regarded as a noxious specimen in his £1.5m-a-year role at goldman, smooth Fabrice, 39, is now a valued member of the faculty. novelist scott Fitzgerald declared there were no second acts in american lives but clearly he didn’t account for Monsieur Fabuleux. Moneybags donors attending The Conservative summer fundraising ball at London’s Hurlingham Club complain Theresa May failed to make them feel adequately appreciated. Sighs one: ‘David Cameron used to work the room. The PM just stayed in her seat all evening expecting us to come to her.’ Most enthusiastic palmpresser of the evening, happily gladhandling the usual array of exotic business types, a grin permanently pinned across his cheeks: Chancellor Philip Hammond. What’s Lurch’s up to? Recruitment news: Headhunters Interim are seeking a ‘Chief Feminism Officer’ to work at a City-based tech firm. The newly-created role, open to both men and women, naturellement, will deal with all aspects of female recruitment as well as ‘supporting and mentoring female staff’. snigger if you must: it comes with a £261,000 salary.