Martin Vander Weyer Martin Vander Weyer

Any other business – Which is worse: theft, drug-dealing, profiting from falling shares or giving cash to Tories?

issue 07 January 2012

I thought editors came on a bit strong with  the ‘Jailbird Honours’ headlines in response to New Year gongs for ex drug-dealer Chris Preddie (OBE) and former HMP Ford inmate Gerald Ronson (CBE), the property tycoon who was convicted of theft and false accounting in the Guinness share-support scandal in 1990.

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Martin Vander Weyer
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Martin Vander Weyer is business editor of The Spectator. He writes the weekly Any Other Business column.

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