23 SEPTEMBER 1989, page 21

House Warning

THROUGH my post comes a photograph of post-industrial Britain — a disused warehouse reflected in an empty water- way. All it lacks is a dog floating upside down. This dismal......

Darwin's Law?

FRAMLINGTON is the unit trust com- pany which looked after the savings of 100,000 people and a year and a half ago was sold over their heads. Now events are justifying the......

City And Suburban

Hello, Mr Hashimoto, welcome to Washington — we have something you want CHRISTOPHER FILDES h e Chancellor and I are off to Washington for our annual hooley. It is arranged round......

Bat And Bulb

THE bid for BAT has produced what I hope is a new lightbulb story. I like the genre, as in: how many psychiatrists does it take to change a lightbulb? None, but the lightbulb......