Confronted by the heartrending expressions of abject misery from its wretched employees stranded in a hostile and alien land where even the Karaoke bars are monopolised by lager-sodden Essex Men endlessly treating Moy Waiiy to a rendition even more Vicious than Sid’s, Hitachi Ltd’s top brass finally relented and allowed its benighted employees over in London for the company’s grandiose bash to fly back home to Tokyo despite the threat of Saddamasochistic terrorism (CI No 1,591) – but it got its priorities right: the equipment brought over for the event all went back by sea.
