Eating for England
A WEEK of weighty dining sees me dodg- ing from the Natural History Museum, where the gold bugs feed amid the dinosaurs and creepy-crawlies, to the Ban- queting House in Whitehall by way of the Palace (British banks hosting the Interna- tional Monetary Conference, in high style) and lastly to the Barbican, where the Bank of England is staging Belshazzar's Feast and one of its own. This is all part of its 300th birthday celebrations, and the Governor is everywhere. He cheered up the foreign exchange dealers by telling them that Euro- pean countries with high unemployment should not give up the chance of a good stimulating devaluation. (He did not quite put it that way, nor did he tell them that it seemed to work for us.) Stamina, this week, is what counts, and London's resilience as a financial centre says something about City life and City livers.
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