Mingle all the way and you can't go wrong at your Xmas bash

ARE you a "mingleton"? Can you circulate at parties? Or do you get button-holed by accountants, hearing monotonous details about their jobs, then about the netball skills of all their daughters, fearing the conversation will end only if one of you dies?

Christmas parties expose a national shortcoming. Most of us are woeful minglers. In my view, it's time "mingling" went on the school curriculum. In a modern economy which relies on networking, it's the one subject likely to get you a job. Even the "H...