17 NOVEMBER 1984, page 23

White Hope

rr he Prime Minister's patron sa g e, Fried- .1 rich Hayek, ar g ues the case for the denationalisation of money. He maintains that competition would brin g about a kind of......

Imo

City and oining money O ur g rubby banknotes make the Treas- ury a billion pounds a year strai g ht profit. Not satisfied with that, the Govern- ment is now callin g in the......

Catcher In The Sky

L od g ed in my mind is the ima g e of Lloyd's underwriter Stephen Merrett leanin g out of a spacecraft with his shrimpin g -net, tryin g to catch a satellite as it whizzes by.......

Softly, Tiny

S nark-scholars and Carroll-crypto g raph- ers have been drawn like moths to a lamp, or Bakers to a Boojam, by my assertion (last week) that in q uirin g into Tiny Rowland is......