27 AUGUST 1994, page 23

All In A Good Cause

HOW MUSICALLY such advice must fall upon a departmental ear. At Marsham Street, the management board (oh, I say) has agreed in principle to set up a steering group under the......

The Wontner Line

NEGOTIATION by press release is a clumsy way to do business, so it must be a coincidence that Forte's hopes for the Savoy are in the news again. We learn for the umpteenth time......

City And Suburban

John Gummer's bureaucrats set out to win the Green Housekeeping Seal of Approval CHRISTOPHER FILDES I am sending John Gummer a rubber plant — just what he needs to make the......

No Confidence, Please

THE GOOD news about the economy is that it has been growing strongly. The bad news is that people have noticed. A poll conducted (for some reason) for the Euro- pean Commission......

Names Later

I AM settling down to write an airport novel. I had thought of calling it The Twelve Pink Forms or Honour and Offer but have picked on Names Later, Old Boy. This is a......