PNL - if Keith meant that then he's been getting some communication lessons from Gareth Kirkwood. Telling the board you are not going to accept a bonus is to all intents and purposes the same as turning down a bonus, in which case the newspapers were essentially correct in their reporting. If he feels it necessary to apologise for the press reporting an incorrect story then it appears something is amiss. I do not know where Willies previous decision not to accept a bonus was widely reported but it was certainly not in the financial press, the mainstream broadsheets or the internal company comms as nobody I know had previously read that. I had read that Standard Life had told the board that paying Walsh a bonus would be unacceptable, which is a different thing.