If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.
The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.
In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay.
I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.
The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.
Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in Chinese.