14 FEBRUARY 1987, page 30

Grudging The Fun

A REFUGEE from the Upper Class Twit of the Year Show — yes, the City still employs them — strolled into Lloyds Bank, Bishopsgate, last week with a large bundle of applications......

City And Suburban

How a dockful of takeover bankers could get in on the Act CHRISTOPHER FILDES I am haunted by a City vision: the dock at the Mansion House court, crammed to bursting with......

Objection Sustained

I AM sorry to see Nigel Lawson slipping back into the Treasury's bad old ways. For years, the Budget had been allowed to creep earlier and earlier in the calendar, as officials'......

Friendly Persuasion

EVEN shareholders have their uses. You would not think it, though, to listen to Friends Provident, the life-assurer. Friends Provident is a mutual society — that is, it is owned......