Who would want to hire Tony Hayward, the former chief executive of BP, who received his fair share of brickbats over his response to the oil-spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico? The answer, it seems, could be Singapore. According to Mark Kleinman, the City editor of Sky News, Hayward is "in talks" to join Temasek, the Singaporean sovereign wealth fund, in an advisory role.

Kleinman has written on his blog that the move would be to the advisory panel of Temasek, although it is not a done deal yet and are at a "delicate stage" http://bit.ly/blIQR5. Sky News is part-owned by News Corporation, the parent company of Financial News.