18 MAY 1996, page 25

City And Suburban

There's danger ahead, Poppa Eddie tells the crowds in Threadneedle Street CHRISTOPHER FILDES T housands of workers jostled in Thread- needle Street to cheer the man they call......

Your Policies Tonight

I SHOULD never have let myself in for this. Trying to explain, a week ago, the Government's merger policy for last week, I promised an update on this week's policy as soon as I......

Mad Dogs And Englishmen

IN TROPICAL climes there are certain times of day when all the citizens retire to tear their clothes off and perspire — all, as Noel Coward observed, except for the visit- ing......

Scots Help Themselves

JUST as a group of Welsh financial fixers is a Taffia, so the equivalent in Edinburgh is a MacHination. It will normally include the landlord of a border county, a fund manag-......

Gloomy Portal

GOOD NEWS and bad news from Light- atendoftunnel, formerly UK plc. Sir Ken- neth Clarke, ebullient co-chairman and finance director, says that everything is fine except the......