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Spending the evening in the delightful company of some former colleagues at a dinner party on the coast (watercress soup, followed by coq au vin, then a sumptuous choice of desserts that featured syllabub, bakewell tart and/or fruit pavlova, with an extensive cheeseboard to round off) I was reminded, by the combination of the presence of the gathered luminaries and the discussion turning to food allergies, that two parties at the table had once conspired in a somewhat underhand manner (that they were not proud of) to perpetuate a joke at the expense of another former colleague (not on the guest list).

While responsible for what we now know as "financial promotions" in a former life (which I seem to recall was called plain old "advertising approval" in the last century), these two reprobates had been taken aside by the Director of Compliance and asked if they wouldn't mind reducing the pressure being exerted on the margins of the rulebook by their approach to endorsing the creative campaigns of their marketing cohorts, as a missive from the regulator had pointed out that perhaps the wind was being sailed particularly close to. In the interests of managing what was suddenly identified as ...

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