24 SEPTEMBER 1994, page 28

Bang To Rights

NOW SEE what happens. Bang goes my idea that the police should charge Sean O'Semtex not with trying to blow up Canary Wharf but with conspiring to defraud its insurers. The......

Landscape With Figures

THE OCCUPATIONAL Pensions Board is troubled (as I was saying) by what it calls inappropriate references, mostly from peo- ple who are worried about their occupa- tional......

Storm In A Tiphook

THE AVERAGE shareholders' meeting is about as much fun as Good Friday in Athlone, the dead centre of Ireland, with the pubs shut. Tiphook's meeting promised sport, if only from......

City And Suburban

Detective inspectors look for evidence against Colin Stagg and Ernest Saunders CHRISTOPHER FILDES I suppose that Ernest Saunders is enti- tled to the same rights at law as Colin......

Answer On A Postcard

ANYONE confused by Mr Clinton's latest policy may like to know that it derives from Ronald Firbank, the fantastical novelist. Firbank, who corresponded on powder-blue postcards,......