15 DECEMBER 1990, page 29

How To Get Money

FOR a touching evocation of the European spirit, I commend Grants from Europe: How to get money and influence policy. Published at 0.95 (but you might get a grant) by the......

Dear Sarah, No Tanks

I BLOW a kiss to Sarah Hogg in Downing Street — but what I find instructive are the appointments that John Major might have made instead, and didn't. A tremendous swirling and......

City And Suburban

The dogs bark and the caravans move in it's humbug time in Rome CHRISTOPHER FILDES B ah! Humbug! A fine display of sea- sonal sanctimony and hypocrisy is on view this week at......

Tale Of A Tub

JOHN Wakeham's great electric bran tub is ending in self-parody. Everybody gets a prize, almost everybody gets the same prize, an instant gain which can be turned into cash —......

Bond Goes West

THE feeling of Alan Bond's collar prompts a City friend of mine to promulgate Bond's Law: Never invest on a west coast. In Western Australia, all the cronies who seemed to have......