![]() ![]() He mentioned a scheme he was working on, to eradicate lawyers from people's personal lives. This man had bought himself in, and out, of a great many things. A lot of people want to be writers: there was no reason to think you couldn't buy your way into it. I wondered whether in fact what he wanted now was to be a writer, with the literary magazine as his entrée. ![]() The billionaire had been keen to give me the outline of his life story, which had begun unprepossessingly and ended - obviously - with him being the relaxed, well-heeled man who sat across the table from me today. He insisted on paying for a taxi to the airport, which was useful since I was late and had a heavy suitcase. ![]() We were meant to be discussing a literary magazine he was thinking of starting up: unfortunately I had to leave before we arrived at that subject. He talked in his open-necked shirt about the new software he was developing, that could help organisations identify the employees most likely to rob and betray them in the future. Before the flight I was invited for lunch at a London club with a billionaire I'd been promised had liberal credentials. ![]()
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