Financier and environmentalist Ben Goldsmith considers the silver linings amidst the bleak coronavirus outbreak From his farm in Somerset, two hours before the Prime Minister sombrely instructs us all to stay at home, Ben Goldsmith, the financier and environmentalist, is contemplating the coronavirus pandemic – and looking for silver linings. “I’ve been worried about this thing since early January.
I think it’s Armageddon. I know loads of people who have tested positive for coronavirus, including several of my friends and also my parents-in-law,” says the 39-year-old son of the late Sir James Goldsmith and Lady Annabel, and younger brother to Zac, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, and TV producer Jemima.