Taki's take on tacky tycoon...

Knowing Taki to be many things, but above all a good judge of both trout and character (he would have to be dragged kicking and screaming onto a yacht as ugly as Oleg's) I reproduce here his own unique take on the Osborne story (finally, one that doesn't mention Osborne).

Apparently the worse hit is Oleg Deripaska, a cheeta look-alike without the chimp’s charm and good manners, whose two great buddies in the U.K. are none other than Jacob and Nat Rothschild, now nervously not answering their mobiles in case Oleg needs cash.

Perhaps we haven't quite seen the end of this story, especially if Guido is right about the tapes