While UK firms are downsizing their cutlery and facial hair capabilities, those flash Continentals are furiously burning cash on the very latest hi-tech innovations.

A casual stroll through the new Uria Menendez offices in Madrid saw El Diary recently stumble across some client-pleasing gadgetry worthy of MI6 itself, as your correspondent noticed one tag-happy vandal scrawling on the glass wall of a swanky nearby meeting room.