Meanweil (sorry), the US firm has been doing a spot of redecorating in its plush London command turret. The Diary learns that one red-blooded associate was recently asked to remove a pair of antlers he had mounted on the wall of his office, which were apparently causing distress to certain animal-loving staffers.

Presumably, the trophy – coming from a beast which the associate is rumoured to have shot himself – was a cunningly ironic reference to the eat-what-you-kill culture so beloved of many US advisers.