Waterhouse always said his decision to quit the left-leaning newspaper was down to one man - the imposing owner Robert Maxwell, whom he nicknamed Cap'n Bob and who had tried to insist he wrote an opinionated piece on trades union ballots.
The CEO of Goldcorp, Robert McEwen turned out to be a shrewd goldbug, turning his modest ownership in the micro cap Goldcorp into a large stake in US Gold .