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It is a genuine shock to witness Stelios Haji-Ioannou, airline magnate, shipping heir and compulsive company-founder, at work. We are in the north London headquarters of EasyGroup, his orange-hued, Hydra-headed empire, perched on cheap blue banquettes in a waiting area reclaimed from the rest of the small office. It is a deeply strange space, converted from a single floor of something circular and Victorian, and it is absolutely crammed with people. Dressed in jeans and shirts, staring quietly at screens, they sit at cramped desks which radiate outwards from a clutch of orange pillars at the room's centre. And there, squeezed under a tiny desk on a chair that looks entirely uncomfortable, sits a burly bloke with rolled-up sleeves and thinning, wiry hair.