After You, Reggie
TOMATOES are cheap but houses are pricy. So retail price inflation (all those Marks & Spencer salads) is at its lowest since Reginald Maudling was Chancellor, and house price......
Sorry, Gordon
SOMEBODY with a working memory ought to have warned Gordon Brown. He has allowed his fellow finance ministers to make him chairman of the International Monetary Fund's Interim......
City And Suburban
More law than equity as Equitable Life puts its good name on the line CHRISTOPHER FILDES he search is for three Lords Justice of Appeal who have not insured themselves with the......
Clear The Board
THE Equitable's president, John Sclater, has been keeping his head down. His state- ment with the accounts was couched in pained terms — the Equitable had got used to applause,......
Urbi Et Orbi
POINTERS to his chances can be found in the pages that follow — Urbi et Orbi, as I reluctantly decided not to call them. Sir Alan Walters says that the best way to reform the......
Rover's Wooden Nickels
PRICING kirs in Avignon this month, I got my timing wrong. The ten-franc kir has returned as the euro resumes its decline. (Germany's elections haven't helped.) Never mind, its......
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