Official: ‘Spice Girls to split’

And so to Canary Wharf; while en route there the Diary ran into the boss of the Henley Centre, Richard Hytner, and a couple of his fellow future forecasters. Intrigued to know what weighty matters were exer-cising the minds of the country’s most highly paid crystal-ball gazers (“We don’t get out of bed for less than 15,000”), the Diary probed deeply and was thrilled with the response: “I give the Spice Girls 18 months,” Hytner revealed. Money well spent, we say.