Bad callFor us hacks, writing stories is not the hardest part of the job. After all, once I've had a chat with my mate Chalky at the club over an extended lunch, sorry, I mean once I've consulted numerous market sources, it's a fairly straightforward task to knock the article up from other people's better ideas. No, the tough part is editorialising, where your opinions are judged, terrifyingly, on their own merits. So, in a way, I felt quite sorry last week for one Patrick Young, editor of a derivatives publication the name of which currently escapes me, for an editorial line that was nothing short of bizarre. Speaking about the recent international derivatives week in London, Young saw fit to announce that at FOW's Barbican exhibition "visitor numbers seem to have been in decline for many years now." I can only assume that he didn't make it to the...