13 MAY 1989, page 23

Come Off It, Cbi

WHAT gets into the Confederation of British Industry? I know it is a trade union, but does it have to proceed at the pace of the slowest and the thickest skinned? There are......

The Florentine Touch

THE billboards of Florence carry the Christian Democrats' posters urging the voters to move Italy into the middle of Europe. Personally, I much prefer it where it is. I felt no......

• • . But Spares The Boards The Reformers Offer

a merger policy with the burden of proof shifted to the bidder, to show that what he proposes is in the Public interest. Picture the long, long trail a - winding through the......

City And Suburban

Labour takes the pooper-scooper to its economic policy . . . CHRISTOPHER FILDES C ats still elude the reformers of the Labour party, but dogs are caught. Labour has adopted a......