Tulkinghorn’s favourite corporate all-rounder Adam Signy thinks the hunting ban is “very depressing”. The poor love has been in mourning ever since the evil Blair edict came into force.

Signy, of course, couldn’t really give a heck about the lack of horseriding, but is lamenting the end of the excuse to doll himself up in riding boots, red jacket and whip – an image that tends to set Mrs Tulkinghorn in a tizzy (and quite possibly Mrs Signy).

Luckily, one of Signy’s major private equity clients may have come to the rescue. Said client tells Tulkinghorn that he is currently hatching a plan to get the Clifford Chance partner to turn up to a meeting in his reds. He hasn’t actually got around to telling him yet, but he will…