CHRIS HEWETT

Jeff Bezos is some piece of work. One of a tiny handful of people who can legitimately argue that the sky is not the limit, the Amazon astronaut is in the happy position of knowing that the only things travelling upwards faster than his New Shepard rockets are the numbers in his bank account. Late last week, the Forbes Rich List put his fortune at $144bn.
In what those of us on this side of the pond used to call “real money”, it works out at something close to £130bn. That figure would have been even higher had the hapless Kwasi Kwarteng hung around Downing Street long enough t...