26 MARCH 1988, page 23

City And Suburban

Strange tales of the forty gilded mats and the chief executive's uncle CHRISTOPHER Fl LDES T he new staple assumption of public life is that at the passing of an eastbound......

Bad Luck At Lloyd's?

LLOYD'S of London looks set for another lawsuit. Tom Benyon, sometime Con- servative MP and chairman until 1986 of the Association of Lloyd's Members, has written to his fellow......

Siege Rations

THE besieging hordes of Lord Forte's army are beginning to rattle the defenders in the Savoy camp. So I inferred when lunching in that camp's venerable bastion, Simpson's in the......

Oppressed Minority

NOEL Falconer and his fellow- shareholders in Rover (many aliases, same old Leyland) have a grievance, and I should like to offer them a new remedy. His letter (page 25)......