Career
He has written a number of books including a collaboration to publish a 2004 biography of Ayrton Senna, The Life of Senna. Rubython lost a libel suit before the United Kingdom High Court in 2006 and was ordered to pay damages of £75,000. He appealed against this award but lost in the United Kingdom Court of Appeal on 18 April 2007.
In the 1990s, Rubython was the owner, publisher and editor of Business Age magazine, which he sold to Dutch publishing giant Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeverijen for close to £3 million.
His next venture was Sunday Business newspaper, a more ambitious project that he hoped would exploit a gap in the market left vacant by the Financial Times. However, it foundered almost from the very beginning due to a lack of investment, combined with an increase in business coverage by the existing Sunday newspapers.
Rubython was forced out soon afterwards although he continued to write for the newspaper. The holding company went into administration twice before the venture was sold to the Barclay Brothers.
He was editor-in-chief of SportsPro Magazine, but has since been replaced by David Cushnan in August 2008.
He was the United Kingdom Independence Party prospective parliamentary candidate for South Dorset at the 2015 General Election but withdrew.
