25 SEPTEMBER 1993, page 17

Towards The Fast Lane

are allowing the British car industry to overtake the Germans POKA-YOKE (which roughly translates as 'cut the cock-ups') is Japanese business jargon for foolproof manufacturing......

If Symptoms Persist. . .

SOMETIMES I wish that I was not sup- posed to love humanity: the strain is sim- ply too great. It would be less, of course, if humanity reciprocated in some mea- sure, or met me......