A magnificent reception

MOBILE phones, as you know, can be pain in the neck, especially when reception is patchy. But do you know whose fault it is when a call keeps cutting out? It’s mine. Yes, really. I’m entirely to blame.

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Or at least I am whenever it’s my daughter who’s on the other end. “What are you doing?” Emily will sigh, when we've finally managed to reestablish contact. “Where exactly are you? Are you walking about?”

“Well, yes,” I'll tell her. “It’s a mobile phone. That’s kind of the point.” Anyway, no matter, because there are two chaps on tonight’s DRAGONS' DEN (BBC1, 8pm) who, I’m delighted to report, are on my side.

Admittedly, they don’t say this in so many words - we've never met, I doubt we ever will, I don’t get out much - but the reasoning behind the product they’re pitching would very much back up my argument.

My point (and theirs) being that mobile phone reception is simply far too unreliable.