21 DECEMBER 1991, page 58

No Room, No Money

HOUSELESS at Christmas, no room, as at first — a surge of seasonal compassion comes from ministers confronted with the consequences of their actions, and anxious to find someone......

Searching Question

MY PARTING thought for the year comes from Cross Street Chapel in Manchester. A noticeboard outside the chapel would call the scurrying merchants to higher things, telling them......

Gold For The Wise . . .

MY NOTION for the New Year is one which the fund managers will think eccen- tric. On behalf of the Friends of Friendless Investment, I invite your support for gold. There are......

Don't Spare That Tree

I SUPPOSE we can be grateful not to have a Mistletoe Commission. Instead we have the nation's largest landowner sustained at the public expense to grow far too many Christmas......

City And Suburban

Goodwill to men in the City is subject to seasonal fluctuations CHRISTOPHER FILDES G oodwill in the City is proclaimed not by angels but by auditors. You can find it in......

. . . And A Silver Plating

IF GOLD is cheap, silver should be cheap- er still. The price is where it was in the mid 1970s, and I was cheered to find, when cost- ing out the new dinner service for Downing......