The LSE had banked donations from Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif-al-Islam and won a contract worth 2.2m to train Libyan officials - a story trumpeted by the Times. Who do we see pop up in Sir Howard's latest column in Management Today? One James Harding, editor of the News International newspaper. Harding's performance at the Leveson Inquiry was "abject" according to Sir Howard. "[He] admitted that one of his journalists had hacked into emails, that the paper had misled a judge by saying he hadn't, and that he didn't know the Times was in court on the subject because he hadn't bothered to read an email from his lawyer." Ah the old email excuse, as favoured by James Murdoch, the former News International boss who has just stepped down. Sir Howard suggests another similarity between the two: "Taxi for Mr Harding I fear. Indeed, he should call one for himself." Mukhtar and brass Oligarch fugitive Mukhtar Ablyazov is believed to have fled to France and beyond. The ex-BTA bank chairman is accused of pocketing $5bn (3.16bn) from the Kazakh bank. His assets have been frozen but he's still entitled to access cash for food, lodgings and legal fees. Rumour has it chums using their Belize-based businesses are picking up the Addleshaw Goddard tab. The lawyers remain tight lipped about who is footing their bill. Who cares, as long as they get paid. Time for Ben Ben Fenton, corpulent Financial Times media hack, has been appointed to head up its live