Richard Desmond: Google are gangsters, but wear fantastic sweaters

'BuzzFeeds, SchmuzzFeeds' said the Daily Express owner in his Financial Times interview. Here are 10 more insights into the mind of the media mogul

Richard Desmond dismissed BuzzFeed in his Financial Times interview as "BuzzFeeds, SchmuzzFeeds - at the end of the day, you trust the Daily Express". So here's a list of 10 things we learnt about Desmond during media correspondent Henry Mance's expensive lunchtime encounter with the porn baron.

1) He is not an internet fan, saying about meeting Google to put OK! magazine online: "They're all very smooth, they're all like out of Thunderbirds, and they've all got these fantastic sweaters - don't know where they get them. By the time you have the fourth meeting, the whole deal's completely fucking changed. They are the biggest gangsters in the world and they get away with it. One thing I've got to say about the European Union is that they are giving them a good kicking. I was always slow to adopt the internet, because I knew what would happen. It's interesting how vinyl's coming back, isn't it?"