appointed you editor of the independent. i was going to ask a mrs merton style question, if you don t mind, which is what was it that first attracted you to the multimillionaire? lebedev and indeed, what attracted them to you, do you think? i ll tell you how we met. which was when i was the editor of tatler, and he came in with a pr female and they wanted to know whether they could we would cover a party they were giving. and so i brought them into my office and the woman said, we re doing this in with a michael gorbachev. i went, do you mean mikhail gorbachev? and she went, whatever. and i said, that s amazing. and then with yevgeny, who was then 28, dark glasses, young manjust said,