’s longest-serving veteran? It’s not John Davidson, even though he has been writing technology reviews since 1996; and it’s not editor-in-chief Michael Stutchbury, he wrote his first article in 1982, and he’s had a longish spell elsewhere.whose antics have for decades skewered the world of banking and broking, with often unnerving accuracy.He first appeared in theOver the years of boom, bust, boom and bust again, he has grown older but probably no wiser, even if he is often less pinstriped.
Taylor suggests a couple of places that are famous lunch haunts of the City of London establishment. The reason? Peattie wants to sketch the interior, so it can form the backdrop of future Alex cartoons. Peattie begins to make some sketches as Taylor talks. They’re both in their early to mid-60s, but you’d never know from their eagerness and energy.
His email signature block describes him as “writer and luncher”, but he peppers his conversation with references to lunching not being what it used to be. Not as lavish, not as louche, and not as liquid. Taylor studied Russian at Oxford and subsequently tried to set up a travel agency selling “real life” trips to the Soviet Union. It failed, but he managed to write a funny book about it, and ended up working in journalism., a start-up that was the brainchild of media mogul Robert Maxwell. The editors told him to come back with a London-themed cartoon of some kind.