16 JANUARY 1988, page 21

Touristy Lloyd's

WHY, Sir Noel Coward would ask, do the wrong people travel? A similar lofty atti- tude can now be discerned in the high hall of Lloyd's: why do the wrong names join? More and......

What Keynes Knew

FOOTNOTE to Russell Lewis's account (in last week's Spectator) of how Keynes played the market — so scientific, so responsible. . . . Nicholas Davenport, Keynes's successor at......

City And Suburban

Soapy Molloy has a message for today's stock markets CHRISTOPHER FILDES T oday's stock markets make me think of Soapy Molloy. Soapy was the P. G. Wodehouse character who, living......

Title Engineering

I DON'T like Lord Young's idea of a Department of Enterprise. It is an example of the regressive euphemism through which Whitehall seeks to solve its problems by title......