The son of a billionaire who ultimately led us to the Brexit vote resigned as a Tory MP last week because he didn’t get his way over Heathrow. But was this principle or arrogance? Earlier this year, during his ill-fated campaign to become mayor of London, Zac Goldsmith was interviewed at an event celebrating India’s Bollywood cinema. With his silver-grey hair and silver-grey eyes, his lofty height and patrician diffidence, he looked every inch like a man aching to be sitting at his favourite Mayfair eatery, but instead finding himself having to savour the uncertain offerings of some high street tandoori takeaway. He declared himself a “Bollywood fan”, saying that he lapped up anything with a Bollywood theme. The interviewer then asked him about his favourite Bollywood films and actors. Suddenly speechless, the 41-year-old old Etonian’s baffled expression suggested he’d just been asked to describe Euclid’s theorem – in Greek. Continue reading...
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