Tea and empathy

The chairman does his bit for gender equality over a pint at the Small Point of Clarification

"So where were we?" asked the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment company SmallBlue Planet as we contemplated our pints of Gee's One And Only Freebie at The Small Point of Clarification. "I think we had progressed beyond debating how some newspapers felt able to criticise IFAs for indulging in hospitality from investment groups when, firstly, so many hacks do too and, secondly, when IFAs have to jump through hoops to prove they have paid for everything bar the peanuts and the Asti Spumante," I said. "And we had been considering whether to move on to debating how some newspap...