The dastardly Mr Deedes

Eloquent ex-EasyJet chief Dame Carolyn McCall says she much prefers her new £900,000-a-year berth at ITV. ‘It is a lot more fun than worrying about the number of cancellations over the weekend because of the weather, Brexit, terrorism and the oil price.’ Dame Carolyn, 56, is of course far too dignified to mention that other scourge of her previous existence. Namely soothing dissident majority shareholder sir stelios Haji-Ioannou’s all-toofrequent temper tantrums. Baritone-voiced Bank of England governor Mark Carney, 52, appeared last night on Sky’s In Too Deep, a documentary about the ecological threat to the oceans. The governor’s frequent outpourings on the environment, climate change in particular, are partly influenced by his graceful wife Diana, a former research fellow at the Overseas Development Institute who espouses ecologically-friendly products. Says a source: ‘Mark’s public tree-hugging keeps the mercury levels steady at home.’ Dunce of the day goes to Labour’s nattily-dressed Peter Kyle, 47, who during yesterday’s interrogation of gKN executives by the Business select Committee wanted to know why the engineering firm’s share price jumped when buy-out merchants Melrose launched its aggressive bid. Blairite Kyle’s Hove seat is a prospective target for Momentum’s Left-wing thugs. Not sure he can rely on a fall-back career as a stockbroker. IAG’s boss Willie Walsh, who despite his £7.8m pay packet sports the world’s cheapest-looking haircut, responded angrily to a story in the Financial Times which claimed British Airways’s transatlantic operation would be hit by Brexit, saying: ‘I wouldn’t believe anything that’s written in the FT. The F in the FT stands for “Fake” Times.’ Is the once quietly-spoken Willie, 56, slowly morphing into Ryanair motormouth Michael O’Leary? His recent ‘kick-ingroin’ wager with Sir Richard Branson over Virgin Atlantic’s future was an unbecoming spectacle.