How to spot an independent director - he doesn't mind making a scene

Spectator, The, Jan 17, 2004 by Fildes, Christopher

. . . funded by fudge

With bills to pay, the Bank of England needs a new profit centre, and the gift shop in its Museum now stocks its own fudge, in four different flavours. (I can recommend the chocolate and champagne.) Some would say that fudge has long been part of the Bank's stock in trade - guided by the Venetian proverb, it never tells a lie, but the truth not to everyone - but on this theme Mervyn King, the Bank's new Governor, has his own ideas. I expect him to introduce Transparent Fudge.