1 OCTOBER 1994, page 30

City And Suburban

Selling gold to help the world's worst governments I'm sorry, I'll lend that again CHRISTOPHER FILDES T ouching down in Malta on his way to Madrid, Kenneth Clarke put forward......

Rolled Up, Set Alight

THE ECONOMY, stupid — as an elec- tion-winning slogan, it is hard to beat. It did the trick for Bill Clinton, and no wonder Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have bor- rowed it. What......

Favours To Come

MY READER on an £18-a-month pension from Beecham can think himself lucky that he did not work for Glaxo. There, the pen- sion fund has to carry the burden of looking after Sir......

Non-executive Parent

SIRING IS tiring. Europe's ministers meet- ing in Brussels have recognised that, but Swift got there first. 'He bears the gal- lantries of his lady' (Swift wrote of the......