The dastardly Mr Deedes

City panjandrum Lord (Jacob) Rothschild, 80, has broken his silence on the referendum, saying a vote to leave would lead to a ‘damaging and disorderly situation’. This puts him firmly at odds with his wayward son, Nat, with whom (friends report) he’s not close. Hedge fund boss Nat, 44, is a vocal Brexiteer – all the more surprising given his close relationship to Euro cheerleader Peter Mandelson. The former business secretary and his Brazilian partner Reinaldo rent a bijou weekend cottage on Nat’s Wiltshire estate. Burberry’s Halifax-born chief executive Christopher Bailey, who avoided journalists when his company recently posted a 10pc drop in profits, will be interviewed by Vogue editrix Anna Wintour at next week’s Cannes Lion Advertising Festival. He promises to explain his ‘secrets to standing out in the crowd’. Fascinating! Burberry shareholders would prefer to hear what secrets preening, ‘ee-by-gum’ Bailey, 45, has for turning around the firm’s cascading share price, down 30pc this year. Rubenesque financier and EU enthusiast Nicola Horlick casts aspersions over Boris Johnson’s support for Brexit, remarking: ‘I’ve known Boris for a very long time, he went to the same college as me at Oxford. He has never been anti-Europe – so you could suggest that there may well be a political agenda.’ Erst- while ‘City Superwoman’ Nicola, 55, left Balliol a year before Boris, 51, arrived. Some feel she lost her sheen after one of her funds invested heavily with mega fraudster, Bernard Madoff. Business Select Committee Chairman Iain Wright will not be invited to Sir Philip Green’s next tasteful party following their terse, six-hour joust yesterday. The Labour no-nonsense Northerner won’t give two hoots. After Green finally shuffled off, Wright mockingly held up a copy of the retailer’s 2005 biography, Top Man, and joked: ‘Oh dear, I forgot to get him to sign it.’ An ex-Goldman Sachs intern has become a YouTube sensation. Gorgeous, Londonborn Jess Greenberg, 21, who has also done holiday stints at Morgan Stanley and Barclays, has racked up 70m views, performing well-known pop ditties and flaunting her admirable embonpoint. Internet experts reckon the pouting chanteuse will have earned around £100,000. Straight A student Jess, who graduates from University College London next month, may consider the rewards of the City comparatively small beer.