16 MAY 1998, page 26

City And Suburban

If George Shultz had known this would happen, he would have sat on his tiger CHRISTOPHER FILDES B irmingham is not my idea of where to spend a weekend, and certainly not this......

The Pru Lays An Egg

I GRAVELY fear that the Prudential has been overrun by logo merchants. These plagues of business life must have crept in when the Pm hit on the idea of starting its own bank.......

Stuffed Again

BUMPING and boring in racing's big race. The new chairman of the British Horserac- ing Board is Peter Savill, which was not the result that the Jockey Club intended. The......

A Treeful Of Owls

PROFESSOR Charles Goodhart came back from an arduous lambing season on his Exmoor farm and felt better. So he changed his mind about interest rates, and took the view that they......

A Better Class Of Enemy

THE APTEST tribute to Ian Hay Davison was the list of those not present when, this week, he collected the Founding Societies Award, his fellow accountants' highest accolade.......