A matter of polarised opinion

Small Blue Planet

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The chairman discusses the great topic of the day: the FSA"s alleged final consultation about polarisation

"Ready to debate the great topics of the day?" I asked the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment company SmallBlue Planet as we sat down to our pints of Thompson"s Tights in The Absent Pantaloon. "Absolutely," he replied. "And frankly I"m amazed that Mark Skinner and Rob Page made it back from Venice without suffering the sort of bodily harm they picked up from New Star"s trip to Morocco last year. I had a tenner on at least one of them crashing a gondola or falling into a canal." "That wasn"t what I was talking about," I said. "I"m talking about an issue that will have profoun...

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