10 DECEMBER 1988, page 27

City And Suburban

People who live in glass houses can't afford the rent CHRISTOPHER FILDES T his week a fusillade of corks saw John Robertson off from the City — the last senior partner of the......

Steel Hits The Target

TAKING as I do a Scroogist attitude to the state pensioners' Christmas bonus — it must have meant so much to the late Duke of Northumberland, who I see has left £17 million — I......

All At Sea With Nigel

I HAVE been wrong all this time about Nigel Lawson's tie. Not, that is, his pink- and-green club tie for moments of ebulli- ence, but the conservative effect in dark blue which......

Cluck, Quack

HAVING laid her eggs, Edwina Currie has moved on to the City, where she is sponsoring a sober movement called Drinksense. (Next, perhaps, Talksense?). There was no such......

Up Murdoch's Sleeve

RUMMER and rummer at Collins. Rupert Murdoch's offer document confirms that he is unhappy with the management (or rather with the loss of good managers), chairman Ian Chapman......