Investment tips every week by email To understand what a difference Sir Stephen makes, look at his website, Bubbs Blog. He leads an agreeable life. One weekend, he is at the Quorn Group Hotel in Leicestershire, which is owned by the General Federation of Trade Unions ("Its good to plough profits back into the sector rather than some private sector hotel chain"

. Another, he is at Glyndebourne opera. For a third, he is staying at Langar Hall Hotel in Nottinghamshire. A few days later, he bumps into Ed and Justine Miliband at a reception and discovers that they got married at Langar Hall: "You cant get enough of networks and networking," he blogs.