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The chairman's got his eye on things but it's not so much CCTV as FSATV

'Did you see that programme on office surveillance the other night?' I asked the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment company SmallBlue Planet. We were sitting in the company's board room where the two of us had just enjoyed an adequate lunch with the managing director and SmallBlue Planet's US boss, who the chairman feels needs to raise his profile in light of the latest vogue for North American funds. Personally I've never been a fan of in-house lunches: more often than not the food is poor and the atmosphere worse as, unlike restaurants, there's nobody to laugh at sitting a...

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