City And Suburban

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Clarke Kenneth the jet-setting Superchancellor takes flight CHRISTOPHER FILDES B ack from the circus at Naples, Ken- neth Clarke will be looking......

A Touch Of The Itch

MR CLARKE'S job carries-with it an occu- pational health hazard: Chancellor's Itch. I have seen it all happen before. The new man bowls into the Treasury, knowing what he wants......

Nothing Venture

JUST IN time to pay for her 300th birthday party, the sporting Old Lady of Threadnee- dle Street has landed the bet of a lifetime. Fifty-odd years go she put £2.5 million into......

Inside Out

Insider trading is the sign of an efficient market (Gecko's Law) and we can't have that, can we? The Stock Exchange must stamp it out, with the help of a supporting cast of......

General Post, Hardship Post

IT WOULD be easier for this Chancellor to send other ministers to meetings if he knew who they were going to be. He must expect, though, that after the reshuffle he will have to......

Felt Collar

I AM obliged to the Liverpool Business School, which has invited me to book my place on future fraud events. Plastic, arson or employment is the choice on offer, mas- ter-minded......