On my EDI-LHR flight last week, the woman next to was openly going through a slide deck on sales of Monster energy drink (for whom she worked, or perhaps they were a client of hers) versus the estimated sales of Red Bull, by region in EMEA. All very interesting stuff. She was in marketing - I know that as she also responded to some emails about the up-coming quarterly VP meeting in South Africa.

A few years ago, I also sat next to then-chancellor Gordon Brown and his aide (me in 1D, he in 1F, his aide in 1E). His aide had documents sitting on his lap and the top sheet was the names and London addresses of a few of the then-cabinet. I thought then that it was real bad that it was so readily on show.

I know, I'm a bad person for looking in both cases.