In the summer of 2021, when a traumatised Britain was enduring a third wave of Covid infections, the Conservative peer Michelle Mone posted a photograph on Instagram of herself and husband Douglas Barrowman in the Mediterranean on board their new luxury yacht, Lady M. She captioned it: “business isn’t easy, but it is rewarding”.
She was right about that, says Marina Hyde in The Guardian – “provided you’re shameless and grasping enough” to “fast-track”