Given the number of high-flying professionals who were tied up in “meetings” throughout the duration of England’s first nPower cricket Test versus the West Indies last week, Lord’s may have seemed like the ideal location for some discreet profile-raising by outsidethe-hospitality-box thinkers Taylor Wessing.

But, as the West Indies spilled their catches and tripped over their bootlaces on their way to a crushing defeat – right in front of the green and white livery of the Taylor Wessing hoardings – The Diary wondered whether the Anglo-Germans were wise to lend their names to such carnage.