Hayward remains proud but deluded: "I think BP's response to this tragedy has been a model of good social corporate responsibility" - And still a victim: I "was demonised and vilified.... life isn't fair ... sometimes you step off the pavement and get h

Yes, yachting multimillionaire and golden parachuting Tony Hayward, life really sucks for you.  Sometimes you get hit by a bus — or at least get a $17 million pension and another high-priced job after the worst CEO performance imaginable — and sometimes your recklessness, arrogance, and hubris causes the death of 11 people, devastates a major ecosystem, and ruins the livelihoods of thousands of people.

Hayward leaves his job as he started it — as perhaps the most self-centered, tone deaf...