26 NOVEMBER 1994, page 34

Say It Again, Ken

I NURSE the hope that Kenneth Clarke will amble along to the House of Commons on Tuesday, open his old red box and pull out a four-word Budget speech. 'I told you so', it would......

Aerospace Underwater.. .

NUCLEAR SUBMARINES are not my idea of a growth industry. I see them as an underwater answer to the hovercraft: some- thing very clever that the British could do brilliantly, if......

What It Takes

THE BRITISH export effort has More Balls Than Most. This is the company which (so I learn from the British-Ameri- can Chamber of Commerce) has exported 27,000 juggling kits to......

. . . Arnold High And Dry

THE COUNTER-BIDDER for VSEL has cash and to spare — the most celebrated hoard in British business. This is, of course, Lord Weinstock, Arnold to some, and man- aging director of......

Fruit And Nut Futures

HOW DO YOU foretell the future? Easy — you ask Sir Adrian 'The Code' Cadbury• His Committee on the Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance has put out what it calls helpful......

City And Suburban

Brown joins the club, Gas pays the sub, Major gets the bill CHRISTOPHER FILLIES B ritish Gas has achieved the impossi- ble. It has made me nostalgic for Sir Denis Hooke. That......