22 February 2016, 10 am
We are entertaining the Japanese attorneys. We greet them with pastries, to show how European we still are. But we serve the pastries with instant coffee granules and a jug of hot water, to demonstrate that, pastries aside, Britain still goes its own way over the fundamentals of life. In the morning session, we tell the Japanese a thing or two about developments in UK and European IP laws, with a strategically brief reference to the EU referendum and how the Prime Minister is telling the stupid people to vote. Luckily, the EyeEllSee cleverly took our visitors out for dinner last night and made them drink so much champagne that now they are barely aware they’re in Europe at all let alone whether they are going to stay there. The mercilessly red walls of CIPA Hall and the mercilessly awful instant coffee are all part of the disorientation tactics. By the time we line them up in front of the board of Past Presidents to have their photos taken, they are half afraid we are going to shoot them for disloyally visiting Munich on their way to London. They look as though jet lag might be one of the pleasanter things to have happened to them on this trip.
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