This week’s exposé of the Presidents Club dinner reminded us of some of business’s biggest horrors. Who else rates in big money’s shower rankings?
Amazingly, considering this column has been going since the mid-cretaceous period, Lost in Showbiz has yet to do a power list. This is mainly because it could never top the GQ one that decided David Beckham was more powerful than Rupert Murdoch. It certainly couldn’t surpass the Details one where Britney Spears’s ex-backing dancer husband was deemed a more powerful man under the age of 45 than Bashar al-Assad. That aged less well than it might have.
But I could definitely consider a Shower List – a list of the biggest shower of horrors in any field at any given moment. First up, then: Britain’s Ghastliest Financial Sublebrities. The idea is tangentially suggested – but of course – by the FT’s exposé of the Presidents Club, a men-only charity party at which City chaps apparently seem to trade donations to the sick children of Great Ormond Street Hospital for the chance to sexually harass the female help. Think of it as Eyes Wide Shit.
