13 NOVEMBER 1993, page 26

Come On Board, Minister

MY LAW OF non-execs says that a man is known by the companies that keep him, and for ministers, that goes double. So a retired chancellor has nothing to fear from going on the......

Honoris Civitatis Causa

THIS IS THE City's cue to promote its own honours list, and to honour its own worthies. The new Lord Mayor, whose theme is the international City, would want to honour those who......

City And Suburban

The Lord Mayor has trumpets and musketeers and pikemen, but no handle CHRISTOPHER FILDES R olling through the City in his golden coach, Paul Newall succeeds this weekend as the......

Lord Of The Treasury

I BEGIN TO think of Michael Portillo as the Treasury's answer to Lord Lundy: We had intended you to be The next Prime Minister but three — The stock was sold, the press was......

The Caz Canteen

AN UNSCHEDULED entr'acte in the Savoy opera has delayed the climactic moment when the directors pick a chair- man — patricians v. plebeians, like the great council-chamber scene......