Depressed over yet another showing in the Spot the Dog charts, the chairman seeks the solace of the bottle
"Do we really have to go through this every six months?" I shouted through the locked door that leads into the mahogany-panelled boudoir the chairman of the insignificantly sized investment company SmallBlue Planet occasionally remembers to use as his office. "I should have thought by now that you would have grown immune to a fairly prominent showing in the half-yearly Spot the Dog charts." "But why do they have to be so mean?" came the plaintive reply from the other side of the door. "I don't think Bestinvest are actively trying to be mean," I said. "Well, not when it comes to Spot the Do...
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