21 AUGUST 1993, page 24

City And Suburban

Europe's rude markets relish the collapse of its governments' policies CHRISTOPHER FILDES 0 h, dear, oh dear, look at the stock markets. They are quite disrespectfully cheerful.......

How To Be Chancellor

HOLIDAY task for the Treasury and City, set by Kenneth Clarke: read Gerald Kauf- man's How to be a Minister. When Brian Sedgmore and Diane Abbott, in a spirit of impartial......

Dog Has His Day

'SADNESS and misery' (Mr Roche writes) 'are the lot of the currency speculator, who is reviled by all, and even governments don't seem to be enjoying their post-ERM freedom......

In The Saddle

MY RACING correspondent, Captain Threadneedle, writes: The Ebor meeting at York is buzzing with reports of a blonde in foal to Lester Piggott. Students of blood- stock note that......

Delorean (adj.)

MY FRIEND Peter Hambro, president of Europe's largest gold mine (in good eating country near Toulouse) and prospector by appointment to the government of Kaza- khstan, rebukes......