Orphan Assets
LUCKIER still. I thought I had five shares in Oldham Estates and was pleased when Cazenove offered to buy them for £1.60 each. I had bought them to watch Harry Hyams, the......
Prudence And The Pill
GORDON BROWN has cracked it. Sex, so I noted at the time of his Green Budget, is one of the few human activities for which he had yet to provide an incentive, a regime, a......
Elephant Bill
LIKE a crazed elephant, the Financial Ser- vices and Markets Bill barges onwards through the House of Lords. It will soon collect its 2,000th amendment — one for each of the......
City And Suburban
The English patient's in a bottomless hole so it's time to stop pouring CHRISTOPHER FILDES B lame drifts around over Longbridge like a big black cloud, with warring cherubs......
Norman Blooded
`NASTY Norman' seems an unkind name for British Airways News to call my colleague on The Spectator's board, Lord Tebbit. Apart from anything else, First Officer Teb- bit......
Begging On The Tube
LONDON Underground is to be congratu- lated on its mastery of the Beggars'-Sore Technique (writes my railway correspondent, IX Gricer). In Whitehall, this is how the spending......
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