The chairman wonders if he may have made a mistake in missing the latest industry backslapping ceremony
"Do you think anybody will miss us?" asked the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment company SmallBlue Planet as we sat in the almost deserted Melloncholia Bar drinking Sun-Downers. "I imagine the organisers of the Goldmine Money Awards will miss your cheque for a table," I replied. "But otherwise, no, I shouldn't think we'll be missed in the least." "It just doesn't seem right, that's all," sniffed the chairman into his glass. "I mean, can you remember the last industry do neither of us attended? It's the end of an era. What on earth can we have been thinking?" "Now don't get...
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