Financier Guy Hands loses wife's support for windfarms investment David Sinclair, a policy director at the International Longevity Centre, looked "a little rueful" at a lunch in the Lords this week to launch a report on how modern grandparents are showering their grandchildren with cash to smooth the path of their university education. That's not how Sinclair remembers his formative years. He told Diary that all his grandparents ever bestowed upon him when he was an undergraduate was a cauliflower - sent through the post. Miliband wins the Eds vote Which Ed, Miliband or Davey, has had the biggest effect on the energy sector in recent months? According to the 200 industry types polled at the Major Energy Users" Council conference yesterday, it's the Labour leader, who came top of the pops with 46pc of the vote, thanks to his promise to freeze power prices if he makes it to Downing Street in 2015. It makes a change from Miliband's days as energy secretary, when his pledges failed to light up the energy managers - a trick he seems to have passed on to the current holder of that post, Ed Davey, who secured just 11pc of the vote. Gulf Keystone may have won its High Court battle over oil assets in Iraqi Kurdistan, but shareholders are still not satisfied. Diary hears around 130 investors have this week written to chairman Simon Murray to demand greater transparency on issues relating to "operational and corporate affairs." "We believe the information gap is damaging the reputation of the company and, with it, the share price," says one source concerned by Gulf's "vague" statements on price-critical information. Diary, too, awaits Murray's response with interest. Speed reading for Manny Where does Man Group's new chief, Manny Roman, find the time? Diary is told Roman has read all five novels on this year's shortlist for the Man Booker literary prize sponsored by his hedge fund, including the 832-page winner, Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries. Roman was joined on the sponsor's tables at Tuesday's awards by Pierre Lagrange, the co-founder of Man's GLG division; Royal Mail's finance chief Matthew Lester, enjoying a night out after dispatching the postal operator's IPO; and Man's finance chief Jonathan Sorrell, the son of WPP boss Martin Sorrell. Harmony has been restored between Napster founder Sean Parker and Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, after the heavy metal artist took Napster to court over alleged music piracy. Now Ulrich has decided that online music streaming is no longer the enemy, the pair have become "very good friends," Parker tells the tech site FastCompany.com. So much so, he invited Ulrich to his recent wedding.