22 JUNE 1991, page 25

Banking On Murdoch

MANCHESTER, as you may know, is the Osaka of the Occident. Watching the Murdoch press excoriate the banks — we name the guilty men, write to your chair- man now — I thought of......

Advantage Ici

A MONTH into the phoney war, and Imperial Chemical Industries has the early advantage. ICI has assumed, ever since Hanson turned up on its share register, that this war is real.......

City And Suburban

Rupert, Mary and I have a winning wheeze family silver for Number 10 RISTOPHER FILDES CH S ilvery tinkles bring me cheering news — my Downing Street wheeze is working! It began......

Off-licence

OH DEAR — the Securities and Invest- ments Board, which moved into its garish new office at the end of last year, is still stuck with its old one. Any takers for a......

Candid Friend

ALAN WHITTOME, knighted in the Honours List, booked his place in history in sterling's worst crisis, 15 years ago, when Britain had to make terms with the Inter- national......