16 FEBRUARY 1991, page 22

Polly's Folly • • Everything Must Go From 42 Berkeley

Square, where Polly Peck set up its head office, regardless of cost or taste. The house is crammed from cellar to roof with lavish purchases — giltwood torcheres in the......

Fasten Seat-belts

The classic victims of financial recession are airlines. Their assets are their routes and their aircraft — but the routes, as TWA is finding, may not be theirs to sell, and if......

Regular Folk

THE reason why most folk-songs are so terrible is, as Tom Lehrer said, that they are written by the people. That goes for self regulation too. Fimbra, which is sup- posed to......

. . . Odd Lots

POLLY assets held out of this sale include a small fleet of BMW cars. These were provided for the use of 14 ladies who seem to have been consultants. The cars have been called......

Tim, Alan And Co

I MUST take care to exclude Tim Cong- don, Sir Alan Walters and Co from the parrot-house. They liked the idea of the ERM no better than I did (as readers may be patient enough......

City And Suburban

Another idea from those wonderful parrots who gave you the ERM CHRISTOPHER FILDES H ere at last comes the interest-rate cuts — but not the devaluation. The last time we devalued......