12 MAY 1990, page 25

Order Of No Merit

WHAT I like about the pecking order at the International Monetary Fund is what Lord Melbourne liked about the Order of the Garter: there is no damned merit about it. By those......

Tifosi V Cagliari

A TESTING week for the Italians. They received visits from John Major, J. Dan- forth Quayle, Colin Moynihan and me. Mr Quayle had the chance to brush up on his geography and......

City And Suburban

Inflation gives Kinnock another chance to miss from in front of the posts CHRISTOPHER FILDES Y ou would be surprised how many people know just what to do about infla- tion. Here......

Lessons From The Master

I KNOW what Harold Wincott meant: `The mind of any columnist with frequent and regular deadlines to meet' (as he wrote, meeting - a deadline 30 years ago) `becomes, inevitably,......