For 333 years, Lloyd’s of London has seemed as quintessentially British as the Royal Family and the Bank of England.
Old money, polite competence and a winning touch of chivalry.
So it’s shocking that Lloyd’s insurance market is at the centre of a sex scandal that would leave Harvey Weinstein reaching for his briefs.
An investigation by Bloomberg Businessweek claims there’s a culture of sexual harassment, assault and bullying. Female employees are referred to as ‘totty’ by their bosses in chalk-stripe suits, and rated from one to ten on their ‘shagability’.
The outside of Lloyd's of London building in the financial district, where there have been complaints that female employees are referred to as 'totty'
Female workers at Lloyd's of London have talked of the sexual harassment they have faced at the company
Just male banter, one might conclude. Except that this attitude led to one woman being attacked by a drunk manager, after which she was told not to complain as it would be ‘bad for her career’. Another who did complain after her boss lunged at her in a taxi was sidelined from her job, while the man, of course, kept his.
Now I have always believed that women should hold their own rather than play the victim card; that an inappropriate pass can be met with a forceful response, even a slap.
I’ve also been a harsh critic of the #MeToo movement, which can decry a friendly hug as sexual abuse.
Last year, the all-male Presidents Club charity dinner at The Dorchester (pictured above) was attended by 360 City fatcats. Some 130 ‘tall, thin and pretty’ women were hired as hostesses.
Yet when a boorish, misogynistic culture pervades an entire institution, as appears to be the case among the oafs at Lloyd’s, no woman can fend for herself. And, in the City, Lloyd’s almost certainly isn’t alone.
Last year, the all-male Presidents Club charity dinner at The Dorchester was attended by 360 City fatcats. Some 130 ‘tall, thin and pretty’ women were hired as hostesses.
There were complaints that some of the men grabbed the girls’ bottoms and put hands up their skirts. The scandal caused the charity to fold.
I once had the misfortune of working with one of these City brutes. He boasted he chose ‘hot totty’ as his receptionists to pull in clients, and that he’d only been unfaithful to his wife ‘half a dozen times’ in ten years.
Will these posh, rich boys with their overbearing sense of entitlement ever get the message? Their era of booze-filled bullying and sexually offensive behaviour is over.
Lloyd’s must clean up its act and fast. Otherwise it will be hit by a #MeToo tsunami — and its reputation will be shredded as quickly as the careers of those women who had the guts to complain.
Two little girls with big hearts
Two schoolgirls raising funds for the hospice that had cared for their grandparents were distraught when their all-day garden sale netted just £4.
Nine-year-old cousins Elouise O’Loughlin and Abbie Waters put their takings through Trinity Hospice Charity Shop’s door in Blackpool with a letter apologising that ‘they didn’t succeed very well’.
So sweet was the note, the manager of the shop launched an online funding page for them which has raised more than £600 for the hospice.
Those little girls’ grandparents would have been very proud.
The role-model Middletons
Was there a hint of mockery in the reports of trouble at Carole and Michael Middleton’s £30 million Party Pieces company, where a few staff are being laid off?
A photo the company released in order to celebrate 30 years of being in business
Something of the snobbery they’ve endured since coming to our attention? If so, it was woefully misplaced.
Not only is Party Pieces in fine fettle, but ever since the Middletons entered public life 18 years ago, when Kate met Prince William, they’ve hardly put a party popper out of place. They have been a model of quiet dignity as in-laws to the future King.
Exercise caution, Emilia
Game Of Thrones star Emilia Clarke reveals that eight years ago she suffered a brain aneurysm that almost killed her. At the time, the 32-year-old was exercising with a personal trainer to relieve stress.
Emilia Clarke (pictured above) has revealed her health woes
I’d seen her in my own gym hitting the rowing machine as though her TV nemesis Cersei Lannister was pursuing her. Emilia’s harrowing experience is a stark warning to anyone, whether in their 20s or 50s, whether Hollywood beauty or Plain Jane — that extreme exercise can have extreme consequences.
Poor Harry can only dream of such discretion from his wife’s family.
One should dismiss rumours that Hollywood A-lister Eva Green is in a romantic liaison with scruffy director Tim Burton after they worked together on the remake of Dumbo. Eva arrived on the red carpet dressed in a green lizard gown — not so much come hither, darling, as go slither.
Some anorak tried to work out who is the most thriftily dressed member of the Royal Family. The Queen, Princess Anne, Charles, Camilla, William and Kate all got honourable mentions for recycling and wearing favourite clothes year after year.
No mention yet of that wear-it-once couture princess, Meghan.
I do so wish I could put a filter on my computer to screen out every Mother’s Day email. It’s a tough time for those of us who recently lost our mums — no one to send that card and flowers to, no one to call next Sunday.
After the death of Love Island’s Mike Thalassitis, the show’s producers were desperate to protect their hit franchise and promised post-production therapy sessions for all contestants. Very sensible. But don’t the 85,000 wannabes who bafflingly applied for the last series, in the knowledge they’d be pimped, humiliated and encouraged to have sex live on the television show, need therapy, too?
++Westminster wars++
- Remainers are excited about an online petition to revoke Article 50 and cancel Brexit, after more than 3.6 million signed it. Rather pales into insignificance compared with the 17.4 million who voted to Leave.
- Having lost the support of even many of her loyal MPs after her disastrous ‘I’m with the people’ speech, a humiliated Theresa May said her duty now was to ‘leave in a smooth and orderly manner’. Trouble is, that’s exactly what most Tory MPs want now: her smooth, orderly and swift exit.
- After reports that Leavers demanded the Chancellor’s head in return for their support for the PM’s deal, Philip Hammond was pictured next to Mrs May in PMQs with his head bowed and eyes tightly closed — sleeping, or praying?
Cindy's head start
Flogging her range of cosmetics, Cindy Crawford demonstrates how to apply £413 worth of her 13 different products in eight minutes to be beautiful.
I timed myself trying out her regime with my own armoury of make-up — mainly Boots No 7 and Simple — and 18 minutes later hadn’t even got around to the mascara. I guess it just pays to be beautiful in the first place.
Cindy Crawford (right at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Benefit) has been demonstrating she applies her makeup (left)
Great news that Emily Maitlis is stepping into Jeremy Paxman’s shoes — recently vacated by Evan Davis — to host Newsnight. Like Paxo, she combines a simmering sexuality with a razor-sharp political brain. Unlike poor old Fiona Bruce, the Antiques Roadshow host who replaced David Dimbleby on Question Time.
Fiona is so out of her depth she flounders like a Roadshow guest who’s just been told their treasured antique is . . . worthless.
Lottery winner Ade Goodchild — 58 and 20st — jokes that £71 million ‘bloody well will’ change his life. Change his life?
If he doesn’t cut down on the sausage rolls Ade risks ending it . . . and soon.
As we vow once again to lose the pounds for summer, Elle Macpherson, 54, emerges in a swimsuit to show off her beach-perfect body. But wait . . . those saggy knees! Bless her, she’s just made millions of us ordinary women feel better about ourselves.
Bond baddie Boyle
Director Danny Boyle reveals the real reason he was booted off the latest James Bond movie was that his storyline clashed with the other producers, namely the Broccoli family who own all the rights to the enduring squillion-dollar 007 franchise.
Danny Boyle (pictured above) revealed he was booted off the latest James Bond set
He reportedly wanted the secret agent to be killed off in a ‘spectacular finale’.
What on earth made him think he could succeed where baddies Blofeld, Goldfinger and Rosa Klebb had failed?
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Main photo article For 333 years, Lloyd’s of London has seemed as quintessentially British as the Royal Family and the Bank of England.
Old money, polite competence and a winning touch of chivalry.
So it’s shocking that Lloyd’s insurance market is at the centre of a sex scandal that would leave Harvey Weinstein rea...
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