Having irritated a fair chunk of my senior contact-base by recently saying City law firms don’t much care about diversity and social mobility, I wasn’t planning to return so quickly to the subject, but this dog just won’t stop barking.

Only this week deputy prime minister Nick Clegg (pictured) announced the Government’s strategy on social mobility, which made much of a campaign to make work experience placements transparent (I won’t call them internships – that’s a nonsense dreamed up to make a questionable practice sound respectable).