Backhanded compliment? Bid for table tennis match with Standard City editor

The London Evening Standard kicks off the festive season with its annual charity auction online tomorrow with some fabulous prizes - top of the pile being a New York shopping trip with Kate Moss as she opens Topshop's first US store. Somewhat further down the list of prizes comes the offer of table tennis and dinner with the Standard's own City editor, Chris Blackhurst; lunch with Andrew Gilligan; another lunch with the BBC business editor, Robert Peston; and something intriguingly referred to as an "audience" with the Standard's Brian Sewell. Monkey wonders if the table tennis and dinner with Blackhurst will take place concurrently – now that would be a prize worth winning.