The latest front in the heroic crusade that is the war on terror was opened up at Legal Week‘s swish new Haymarket hideout recently when a mysterious parcel arrived from the other side of the pond. Indeed, it seems a sinister new threat has emerged – in the unlikely form of San Francisco firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman.

A belated Xmas gift from the plucky West Coast funsters saw a hefty block of Belgian chocolate land on The Diary’s over-crowded desk – complete with miniature three-inch hammer to break apart the aforementioned confectionary slab.