While your correspondent is used to empty threats – ‘we’ll sue if you print this’, ‘you’re fired if you do that’ – The Diary was this week excited and only slightly unnerved to receive its very first death threate and from a City partner, to boot.

After charming said partner into spilling the beans about a particularly top-secret spat of internal politicking, your correspondent was slightly surprised to later receive an email threatening dark consequences if the news became public.