Rocky road

Peering via his Chairmo-Vision surveillance network, the chairman surveys thin spaces between finance and politics

No time for supposedly humorous venues as the chairman of the insignificantly sized investment company, SmallBlue Planet, and I visited the company's boardroom to make use of his patented Chairmo-Vision surveillance network. No pints either - we were far too busy. And, to be fair, it was nine o'clock in the morning. And everybody knows that's Bloody Mary territory. The chairman pressed a remote-control button, and the giant portrait of him and his father slid to one side to reveal a bank of television screens that show footage from cameras he has had installed around the SmallBlue offices...