Buying influence: Lord David Sainsbury's personal ambition and private wealth is dictating government policy on science. It's high time we the electorate called this unelected, bio-tech investor to account, says Jon Hughes

摘要

Lord David Sainsbury's life has all the hallmarks of a classic Hollywood script. An heir to the family fortune has to subordinate his twin passions for politics and science to family expectation. He goes to work in the family business. Embittered, foryears his frustrations simmer. Then he starts to use his burgeoning fortune to fulfill his ambitions by proxy. He pours millions of pounds into think-tanks, political parties and scientific research. He becomes feted as the saviour of the universe. TheNobel prize awaits...