Smoke and Mirrors

Sheraton's relaunch was spectacular. Endless, excellent food, and a wondrous Harlequin dressed up in mirrors like a human glitterball, playing music from a tray of wineglasses.

Good fortune was mine to bump into the newly-shorn Jolyon fforbes, ex-hack and now PR supremo. Together we lamented the dire state of UAE newspaper journalism - rockstars "regaling" the crowd, "quite delightful" events and occasions, and thing that "one can avail oneself" of.