City Diary: Tony Hayward recalls his 'wonderful time' running BP So what's next for Mr Hayward, currently combining chairing Glencore with chipping away at the coalface in Kurdistan as CEO of Genel? The energy veteran, 57, admits he's "getting on a bit," so he plans to step aside to chairman at Genel over the next eighteen months. After that, readers may be relieved to hear there's no return to big oil in the pipeline for the energy CEO who is "comfortable with risk." "I certainly won't be going to work for another major oil company," said the geologist by training. I've done that. In spades, Diary suggests. Formula E, the electric racing car's answer to Formula 1, is moving into the fast lane. Emmet Keeffe III, the iRise software tycoon who co-owns the Campos Racing team, flew out to Kuala Lumpur last night to network at the second Formula E race of the championship's debut season, following September's opener in Beijing. Formula E Holdings is run by Alejandro Agag, a Spanish politician and former business partner of Flavio Briatore. Going by Mr Agag's form in becoming Spain's youngest-ever MEP, Formula E could take pole position. Remember Diary's recent tale of the resources broker who slowed his 300bhp Jaguar to observe a fracking protest at a Yorkshire drilling site run by Rathlin Energy? The owner of the Jag, Jonathan Williams at RFC Ambrian, has now given an update. The energy protesters have been boosted by a celebrity visit from Bez (pictured below). For those readers who weren't active on the Manchester rave scene in the 1980s, Bez is the dancer from the Happy Mondays known for his prodigious consumption of a different kind of fuel. Quindell has been called many things in recent weeks, but one of the five "most interesting plays" in tech is a new one. This is how Quindell's estranged PR agency, Redleaf Polhill, described the controversial outsourcing business in its invitations to hear Quindell "present to the market" at its Tech Showcase yesterday. "To celebrate what has been a memorable year for tech, we have handpicked five of the most interesting plays to present and answer your questions," said the invite. It's certainly been memorable, but perhaps too "interesting" for some. One of the other four tech stocks in Redleaf's original line-up, the healthcare outfit Ideagen, pulled out at short notice, to be replaced by the data company Tracsis. Perhaps bosses at Ideagen, which prides itself on "compliance-based information management," had concerns about sharing a stage with Quindell as the London Stock Exchange starts investigating the company's financial situation. If so, Ideagen needn't have worried. Now that Quindell is no longer a Redleaf client, it was a no-show too.