‘There’s only ooooooooone Mike Warburton,’ TS was heard singing while staggering home from Grant Thornton’s press bash last week. Alas, our song was somewhat inaccurate, for it was revealed over a few pints of something cool and frothy that Mike, a tax partner at GT, has an identical twin.

‘Yes, it’s true,’ he later confessed to TS. Mike and Peter, as his twin is known, went to the same school and university. ‘We used to alternate beards, six months on and six months off. It didn’t half confuse the ladies.’

Mike is well-known for being able to talk the hind legs off a donkey. TS can only wonder what Christmas is like in the Warburton household.