Last Monday I had a delightful lunch with the turkey ambassador. He didn’t appear to know anything much about Ankara or care whether Turkey joined the European Union, but seemed more interested in what people eat for Christmas. He was the chef, Marco Pierre White, who had just been given the title by Bernard Matthews, the biggest British turkey producer, and was therefore flying the flag of the battery bird.
After lunch and back in the office, I started reading something about women on boards and saw that Sir Win Bischoff, chairman of Lloyds bank, has a new title too: he is women-on-boards ambassador.
Two swallows don’t make a summer but when I got home, I found that during the day I had become the parent of an ambassador: one of my children had been asked to be an ambassador for her school society.