Facing up to commercial realities

'I just can't believe they're going,' the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment company SmallBlue Planet sniffed into his pint of Turpin's Despair. He gazed mournfully around the tulip-festooned interior of The Flying Dutchmen as I dodged eye contact by staring into my own pint of Wells Notoverlyhappyeither. 'I mean those two were the last people I ever thought would move,' he continued. 'They were like part of the furniture. It feels as if the pair of them have been there since the beginning and now they're off. I don't mind telling you ' it's quite a shock. Kind of makes a ch...