17 APRIL 1971, page 31

Skinflint's City Diary

A lot of City folk, who are in the business of persuading the rest of us to trust them with our savings, have been saying in the Sunday papers, making their wishes father to......

Television Remote Control

Do you remember ten or twelve years ago it was usual, as it still is in the United States, for television shops to offer a remote control switch for channel selection and......

Ad Epton

It is unthinkable that men like David Rowland of Fordham Investments are domiciled abroad just to save taxes, but a lot of people will never like them for it, even if it is only......

Donnelly And Berkeley And Melchett And Marsh

Desmond Donnelly and Humphry Berkeley are both nice men I like, but they have deci- ded in their different ways to become poli- tical April Ashleys. Once I put it to Hum- phry......

Clever Fox

The economic folly and the paradox of the continuing struggle by the unions for what they call 'parity' and in the same breath what they call 'differentials' reminds me of a......