For the last few years, Rosie Millard has been regaling readers of the Times with boastful tales of her indulgent lifestyle. She's bragged of taking on massive leverage to become a buy-to-let landlord, and revealed that even with two high income earners in the household, she still had to max out her credit cards in order to maintain the standards she aspired to.
But in common with the rest of the Times hacks, she's now trying to change her message, in line with the increasingly dire economic outlook. A few months ago her buy-to-let column gave way to something called "Lust, greed and envy", though as it turns out this has mostly been about buy-to-let. And in today's Sunday Times, she does an admiring report on a self-admitted "z-list celebrity", Geraint Anderson.
Under the nom de guerre "Cityboy" Anderson, an ex-investment banker, had a regular column in one of the free London papers, blowing the whistle on the excesses of his colleagues and competitors. Now he's quit the biz and written a novel on the same topic, imaginatively called "Cityboy" (and equally imaginatively subtitled "Beer and loathing in the Square Mile" -- how many times does that make it that Hunter S.Thompson has been ripped off?)
Rosie writes admiringly of how Anderson gave part of his last £500k bonus away and talks of his plans to start a commune in Pembrokeshire. Her final verdict: "Go for it, Cityboy". And while you're at it, Geraint, take Rosie to Pembrokeshire with you.
Next week in the Times: Richard Dawkins bigs up the Pope.
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