I type to you, like an altogether younger, indeed livelier, Alastair Cooke, en route to Manchester for a meeting of my "learning set", which is made up of 6 pleasant middle and junior managers. (And me, not that I manage anyone or anything. Though in the new flat workplace structure in which we all now operate, one must apparently be able to inflence without managing). The 0655 train from Euston takes 2.5 hours to get to Manchester, and I have got sick of reading the materials for the Lloyd's introductory test (sample question: "in what section of an airline insurance policy will there be cover for liability to third parties for objects which fall off their aircraft?" . It's not a hard test - the company sacks anyone who fails the test twice - but it
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