Who says pro bono heads are a bunch of liberal, do-gooder lady-men? Certainly not The Diary and certainly not Birmingham’s finest, Wragge & Co, which your correspondent has learned, has been helping with the war on terror in its own small way.

No, it’s not all giving poor people free soup, at least not for Wragges pro bono wallah Steve ‘rifle’ Butts, who has just been serving in Iraq as a reservist.