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Regarding Simon Kuper’s piece on how to survive a conference (Opinion, FT Weekend, April 30), in my regiment we had an admirable way to stop officers droning on prior to lunch.

The solution was to give all officers a pre-lunch drink on mess funds if the meeting ended by one o’clock. We never ran over time!

Major (very retired) Clyde Aylin
Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK