22 JANUARY 1994, page 21

Emergency Entrance

THE PREVIOUS Chancellor — whose name, now that I reach for it, escapes my grasp once more — is making a speciality of emerging markets. He is to be chairman of Taiwan Investment......

City And Suburban

The taxpaying peasants revolt — let that be a warning to Treasury ministers CHRISTOPHER FILDES I draw Treasury ministers' attention to the case of Shu Liu and the inspector of......

Axe To The Branches

OUR WELFARE services already employ twice as many people as our banks, and the banks mean to keep it that way. Amid cries of pain and shock, they are hacking back their numbers......

Movers, Shakers, Lawyers

A MEDIUM-SIZED earthquake in Los Angeles is the least of Lloyd's of London's worries. Charge it to the advertising bud- get, along with the cost of Michael Jack- son's youth......

Directors' Outing

ONE FORM of employment growing expo- nentially is non-executive directing. The Bank, which set up a non-execs' employ- ment agency pro bono publico, has actually managed to sell......

No, Sir, Don't Mean Maybe

IT IS the political question of the hour. I faced it at a club which had asked me to talk about the Government and the econo- my. To get things right on purpose, I said, is......