Plain sailing for Moulding with flotation of Hut Group

For practising cynics, BBC 2’s excellent recent documentary series Manctopia: Billion Pound Property Boom had a Hitchcockian tone. It chronicles the froth (and consequent hardships) of central Manchester’s recent glitzy renaissance, and was filmed before the pandemic. Viewed through Covid-tinted lenses, the sense of suspense and a coming economic horror is unavoidable. Except, presumably, for Matt Moulding, founder, chief executive, chairman and lord protector of The Hut Group, a com