13 JANUARY 1990, page 20

Costa De La Lluvia

I WAS pointing the finger last week at our biggest and least excusable importer, Her Majesty's Government. Of last year's appalling £20 billion balance-of-payments deficit,......

Independent Means

THE Bank of England consoles itself with its scope for influencing the whole range of economic and fiscal policy, but its Deputy Governor, Sir George Blunden, owns that he......

Shuffle And Deal

THE high-stake poker game at Eurotunnel is working out as the odds have for long suggested. All three players — the com- pany, the contractors, the banks — have bid as far as......

City And Suburban

No more political ravishment when the Old Lady wears the trousers CHRISTOPHER F1LDES I have won the Bank of England's first prize. What glory! The Old Lady, the Bank's journal,......

Cosa Nostra

HASTILY posted posters now invite you to guess which retailer sells one out of every five television sets we buy. No prize is offered for guessing Dixons (well, it wouldn't be......