It’s always sad to see a company go under, and one of the saddest parts is seeing the assets go under the hammer, but as we survey the world from our second-hand chairs with the covers wearing thin over our ramshackle second-hand desks with the drawers that don’t with, we sometimes wonder about others’ priorities: according to the Daily Telegraph City Diary, among the items to go under the hammer from Doctus Plc’s Manchester headquarters were an inlaid board table, 14 brown hide chairs, a rosewood-panelled Compact Disk, video recorder and projector unit, purpose-built shelves, limited edition prints, concealed fridges – and a collection of busts on plinths knocked down for less than UKP100 – but Doctus couldn’t afford Computergram…
