A mountain sense of unease

The chairman get a little testy over the rumours of an impending takeover of his company

"Come on – you can tell me," I said to the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment company SmallBlue Planet as we sat down to share a bottle or two of Incessant Rumour in The Absent Frog. "Is there any truth behind all these stories that SmallBlue is facing a management buyout?" "Not you as well," sighed the chairman. "It feels as if I've been fielding calls on this all week and yet I can't understand what could have started them off." "You mean what could have started them off this time around as opposed to every other time talk of a SmallBlue MBO has cropped up in the last four ...