The season of welfare events has started. Last Bank Holiday was the first one, the Elephant parade. The promenade showed 260 Asian elephant sculptures, each of them sponsored by the English elite. Among them was the Indian investor, Cyrus Vandrevala. <o:p></o:p>

The Man Who Changed The Worldhosted the Russian Midsummer Fantasy on June 5^th. Tables have been bought for £15,000. The most coveted auction prize is dinner with the Man Who Changed the World.  Last year private equity investor Cyrus Vandrevala bid £75,000 for it and joined President Gorbachev with his family in Moscow; the previous year it went to Hugh Grant, and before that the mobile phone tycoon John Caudwell.  <o:p></o:p>