10 FEBRUARY 1990, page 22

Encore, Encore

THE rest-home for old jokes which serves the Financial Times for a diary column has found a distinguished inmate. This is Saki's joke, from his short story 'Reginald on......

Nigel On Wheels And Wings

WHAT Nigel Lawson wanted from his new job — so he told me last month, as we stood in the pouring rain, searching for taxis — was a car and a driver. I hope that Barclays de......

My Goodness, My Lord

I SHALL not, after all, be in contempt of Mr Justice Denis Henry's court at South- wark if I tell you that, when I last heard, the chippies were still in there. It had needed......

City And Suburban

Time of reckoning, as a cold wind blows down Lombard Street CHRISTOPHER FILDES I t is a bad time of year in Lombard Street. South-westerly gales screech from Lloyds down to......