Friday Letter: How you feelin?

Stepping through the doors of London’s Hilton Metropole hotel for the opening day of the 2005 EVCA Symposium, one was met by the soothing strains of the kind of background music so typical of hotel foyers the world over. By the end of the day though, delegates may have been more in the mood for the pounding rhythms of “Feelin’ hot, hot, hot”.