11 JANUARY 1986, page 33

Frozen Waste

THE view from the Stock Exchange Tower is of a City suffering from a form of Gresham's Law. There will be half a dozen regulatory bodies, and firms will prefer (so the Exchange......

Starvation Corner

AH, THE cold New Year — season of bracing financial resolutions! Budgetary control falls upon the business scene, past excesses must be undone, and directors and managers with......

Hover Bovver

THE hovercraft is a triumph of British inventive genius, as we are more frequent- ly told by politicians now they have gone off Sir Clive Sinclair. I wonder, though, whether (as......

City And Suburban

Sir Nicholas's ten bright years end with the barometer falling CHRISTOPHER FILD ES A lean and ambitious Doctor of Phi- losophy learned in the lore of ormolu barometers is an odd......