‘I’m not an office person’ is a comment heard a lot, either by an office worker looking wistfully out of the window or by a fire-fighter, nurse, postman, gardener or pilot. The phrase ‘office gossip’ speaks for itself, that chatter that takes up a good proportion of a working day. And then there is ‘office politics’: the unspoken rules hard to explain to a newcomer – and often intrinsically linked to office gossip.

The run of UK good news continued yesterday with the announcement of the baby son born to Prince William and his wife Kate. Following last year’s Olympic Games, Diamond Jubilee celebrations, and recent British sporting triumphs in tennis, rugby, cricket and cycling, the news of the royal birth promises that the general feeling of positivity in the UK is not set to end just yet.