Do you find the controversy around your work exhausting?
"I find the controversy over my compensation deeply disturbing," he wrote.
Greenfield claims to find the controversy that followed inexplicable: "The reaction by the international print and broadcast media to this seemingly bland and logical statement was out of all proportion to its content.
In an editorial titled "Mea culpa – I act like the owner I am" in The Financial Times on June 5, Mr. Sorrell wrote: "I find the controversy over my compensation deeply disturbing".
To give you an idea of quite how long ago that was: when I flicked through my old scrapbooks to find the controversy, I found it was around the same time as I wrote the following words in a newspaper piece.
Searching for a slightly less urban view of national life, one might find the controversy over whether the Queen guitarist Brian May should be allowed to discuss the badger cull on Springwatch, or watch the new series of fantasy house-buying TV programme Escape to the Country.
"I find the controversy over my compensation deeply disturbing," he wrote, adding that "the most wounding comment, made anonymously, is that I deserve a 'bloody nose' because I have been behaving as an owner, rather than as a 'highly paid manager.' If that is so, mea culpa.
Find the controversy and the conversation.
"I think we find the controversies are far, far less today than they were during her lifetime," she added.
Others found the whole flag controversy a non-issue: .
