He had been there five years.

His managing director, a woman named Denise Auerbach, went in front of a panel and argued for him and I have never met her and I would like to.

What she told him, in a one-to-one, and what he repeated to me in a kitchen with his head in his hands, was:

“Julian.

I kept you because you walked in on Tuesday and said the true thing in the first four seconds.

“You understand that’s the same skill, don’t you?