20 FEBRUARY 1971, page 27

Familial Propriety

When Lord Rothermere finally gave up the cares of chairmanship at Associated Newspapers, it was the general consensus in Fleet Street that his departure marked the beginning of......

Kindly But Misguided

Peter Paterson is the eupeotic industrial cor- respondent of the Sunday Telegraph. He sees the progress of the Industrial Relations Bill like Milton saw the Puritan Revolution......

Sir Kenneth Keith

Sir Kenneth Keith is a merchant banker and head of Hill Samuel. His bank is not growing like it was and had a severe setback recently in failing to take over Metropolitan......

Skinflint's City Diary Sell Signal

Chartists have a capacity for tendentious drivel but as what they say affects the action of their customers a degree of sceptical acknowledgement of their existence must be......

Foolhardy Investment

Sir Kenneth Keith has firmly asserted, in the SPECTATOR and elsewhere, that the Stock Exchange should not be subject to public regulation. He has seen that the agreeable......

Satisfaction Guaranteed

Last month the nice girl who cooks for the SPECTATOR's contributors' lunchroom wrote to Tesco Stores with a minor complaint to receive immediately a telephone call from Sir Jack......

Funebrial Rites

The trouble, it now appears, with this scenario is that it took no account of Vere Harmsworth, who has not taken particularly kindly to the general suggestion that he has......