14 MAY 1994, page 29

Paying For The Past

DEREGULATION IS a certain bet for the white paper but something of a talking horse. There will be plans to chip away old regulations (Factories Acts, Shops and Offices Acts) and......

City And Suburban

The great Hezza bandwagon gallops along with happy hints of hog heaven CHRISTOPHER FILDES ways ready to bet on a bandwagon, my City friends had their glasses out the other day......

Clocking The Meeting

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY: I learn that an ingenious Swedish clockmaker has patented a clock to take to meetings. Instead of telling the time it tells the money. The salaries of all......

A Previous Chancellor

INFLATION KEEPS hitting the target set for it by the previous Chancellor, so the Bank of England wonders why the markets have so blatantly lost faith. Something to do with......

Closing Sale

THERE SHOULD be fireworks this week- end at the annual meeting of the Norwich Union, which (as I was saying last week) is happy to tell others how to run their busi- nesses but......

Post Haste

THE POST OFFICE — motto: please hurry up and privatise us, we want private sector salaries — has a newly commercial approach to its express delivery service. This despatches......