21 MAY 1988, page 22

Pots Of Honey

MY favourite nationalised industry has done it again. It has brought in a profit of £1,391 million — up £29 million on the previous years' figure, which was itself a record.......

A Bogus Crisis

THIS week brought a show of reconcilia- tion. The Downing Street couple — as couples in the public eye sometimes have to do — arranged to be seen together, smiling, even if the......

City And Suburban

Duck versus Garbo, or the breaking up of the Winships of Downing Street CHRISTOPHER FILD ES T he Downing Street couple's tiff over sterling suggests nothing so much as the......

Don't Shoot

CASUALTY and beneficiary of the sterl- ing quarrel is the Chancellor's press secret- ary, who, after less than six months in the job, has been summarily promoted raised to the......