City Diary: How will Guardian staff fare with the publisher's new menu? Wish you were here? Not really, writes Aberdeen Asset Management's chief investment officer, Anne Richards, in her postcard from Davos. The put-upon City executive - "getting to Davos is not for the faint-hearted" - has posted a dispatch that reads as though she has trekked through blizzards for a week to reach the World Economic Forum, as opposed to simply catching two planes. The final straw, after a start at "stupid o'clock" in the morning, was an exhausting "two-and-a-half-hour bus journey." Luckily, Ms Richards has some sound advice for anyone following in her intrepid footsteps."Those who do not wish to rub shoulders with the [sic] hoi polloi on the bus can ... arrange their own transport," decrees the regal globetrotter. SFO bills keep pouring in Property tycoons Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz are keeping a close eye on the House of Commons this morning . Today, MP Emily Thornberry will press Attorney General Dominic Grieve for an estimate of how much he reckons last year's judicial review brought by the Tchenguiz brothers against the Serious Fraud Office cost the law enforcement agency. The expense shouldered by the SFO relating to the judicial review is part of the £1.3m the fraud squad spent pursuing the ill-fated investigation into the brothers" role in the collapse of Icelandic bank Kaupthing. Of course, that bill doesn't include the estimated £3m the SFO must pay to cover the brothers" legal costs, or the Tchenguizes" multi-million-pound damages claim, to be made public on January 31... Today is also a significant day for CMC Markets chief Peter Cruddas, the former Conservative Treasurer who resigned from the party last March over cash-for-access allegations. The spreadbetting tycoon denies the accusations and is today due to appear in the High Court with his defamation claim against the source of the claims, the political lobbyist Mark Adams. Cruddas is seeking £300k in damages for distress and is being advised by lawyers Slater & Gordon; Adams, rather bravely, is representing himself. Proof is in the sales... A cheerful note in yesterday's statement from brewer SAB Miller. Sales of Victoria Bitter, the ale of choice for "hard-working outdoor men," rose 2pc during the last quarter of 2012 - the brew's first quarterly increase for more than a decade. The reason for this "can't get enough of the stuff" moment seems to be fairly cut and dried. SAB Miller decided to give Victoria Bitter more of a kick last October, upping its alcohol content from 4.3pc to 4.9pc. Somebody tell Heineken, where plans are afoot to weaken "no nonsense" John Smith's from 3.8pc to 3.6pc from next month.