No Claus for concern

This year's Christmas card collection has been the usual rag bag of the traditional, the curious/abstract, the e-mailed (yet to see a good one of those, it must be said), the unintentionally amusing and unintentionally unamusing, the sloppy (it's spelt Claus, good folk at PR company Grandfield), the un-Christmassy (especially the one from College of Law PR adviser Tim Devlin that features what looks like a transsexual flamenco dancer), the over-cutesy (City firm Richards Butler's is designed by a nine-year-old from Bishop Challoner Boys School in east London, where its lawyers help out in a reading partner programme during lunchtimes), and of course the card that isn't a card but rather a card to explain that the firm won't be sending out cards and will instead donate the money to charity.

But a few have passed our stringent approval tests, most notably this amusing effort from the Serious Fraud Office (SFO).

But Santa can rest assured that it will take the SFO a very long time to get him to court and even then he has a sporting chance of getting off.