20 FEBRUARY 1988, page 23

Complacency And Alarm

`SIR Kenneth Berrill: alarming level of complacency' was the caption, in the City pages this week, to a picture of the Securities and Investments Board's chair- man. This severe......

City And Suburban

Somebody's got to be summonsed, And it was decided upon CHRI STOPHER FILD ES T he first John Ritblat knew of the Department of Trade and Industry's in- quiry into his share......

Shazam

A DIRE report reaches me from Wall Street of a bond salesman in trouble sacked by his firm, wiped out on his personal dealings, sued by his wife, in- formed that his mistress......

Us And Them At Ford

FORD of Britain is reaching for reverse gear and backing away from the barri- cades, where its 32,500 employees have quite plainly faced the management down. Which was the last......