As we pile ever harder into the season of goodwill to all men other than those who sold you a slice of Steinhoff last week, there are certain festive traditions that must be upheld. Retailers will be bombarding you like the Allies over Dresden; you will reacquaint yourself with the early works of Mariah Carey; Slade’s lone masterpiece, "Love, Actually" will be on a constant loop; and you will find a Cinderella story of triumph over adversity lurking in the nether regions of the small-cap universe — take a bow, Ellies.Dignity loses its grief premium Clearly all the thunder this week has been stolen by the startling demise of a formerly sizable Frankfurter, but there doesn’t seem to be much point in adding to the acreage of forest felled to house the column inches devoted to that sorry saga. Aficionados of the macabre will be fighting like wildcats to get hold of an invitation to Steinhoff’s meeting with its bankers, which is scheduled for December 19 and promises to be one of the liv...
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