Unfortunately the season of summer media parties is upon us and TS is swapping tranquil nights in for schmoozing, drinking fine wines and snacking on canapés.

The first of the summer was Ernst & Young’s at its London HQ on the riverside. The event was a glorious mix of idle gossip and accounting banter with senior members of the firm.

But TS was disappointed to learn that chairman Nick Land hadn’t managed to turn up, despite personally inviting us (according to the invite sent in the post). Apparently he was on his way back from a ‘working’ trip to Ghana.

Perhaps next time, Land could simply take the press with him on his trips to exotic locations and kill two birds with one stone.