10 NOVEMBER 1984, page 21

City And

Charging for gilts. T he field for the City's newest classic, the Great Gilt-Edged Handicap, threatens to swamp the course. Anxiously the stewards confer with the starter. What......

Tiny's Hand, Frozen

T he one fixed point in our wayward rules on monopolies and mergers is the Lonrho clause. Under varying Govern- inents, it has invariably been enforced, and, at some stage,......

Gotcha

Door old Johnson Matthey — what an 1. ignominious fate, to end up as a sort of financial Belgrano! To be sunk was bad enough, but the inquest that has followed . . . . Which way......

Capital Issue

B ooks about the City suffer the dis- advantage attributed to the Oxford school of philosophy — the questions stay the same, but the answers change. By far the best accounts for......