What better way to spend the summer than complaining about your lot in life in an airless office that is either stiflingly hot or bone-chillingly cold depending on which of the two settings the air conditioning is currently set to?

One PR for a top City firm was this week bemoaning her place in the fiscal food-chain, laying bare to The Diary how unfair it is that she takes home less cash than her partner paymasters. Follow-up topics for discussion included where your correspondent is going on holiday this year (nowhere), where said PR was going on holiday (Mexico) and how much more lawyers get paid than journalists (even real ones, not just The Diary).