All this is a bit like monarchists complaining that they don't like Prince Andrew. The point about morachy is that you don't have any say in the head of state. The point about private enter… (View Post)

How do you distinguish "live like adolescents" from "live in a different way from what I think is normal from my generation"? There was a R4 programme on spinsterhood yesterday, s… (View Post)

Ciba-Geigy (a predecessor to Novartis) for a while employed a flamboyant (English) senior salesman, who boasted that he would sometimes invite buyers to a vastly expensive meal, get them to sign the … (View Post)

Yes, but that was the question I asked earlier, and it applied equally when I was in reasonably senior management in private sector pharma. Would the Trade Delegation (or the private clients) make di… (View Post)

It's recent (June). Apparently the information was "published as part of transparency rules". Details of the lunch for 10 include "two bottles of Tanqueray, the London dry gin, th… (View Post)