As the rumpus about Cadbury showed, there is a certain residual wariness in Britain, as in all countries, about foreign takeovers-a fear that acquirers will strip out the business and take it abroad.
It set me watching the crowds cheering His Majesty the King and asking myself what all the fuss was about, without giving me anything positive to put in the place of that heady patriotism.
There is a boisterous quality to this stretch,as people pop in and out of lecture halls, grabbing syllabi and listening for twenty minutes or so before darting away to other classes.
When you're on a call, beam-forming mikes focus on your voice while voice accelerometers detect speech through your jawbone, so a loud restaurant or a windy day won't get in the way of your conversation.