27 JUNE 1987, page 25

City And Suburban

Gilmore's Law finds the rate reformers up to their rump in alligators CHRISTOPHER FILDES T he first principle of the tax reform, or Gilmore's Law*, is that the people who are......

Scot-free Swindlers

THE City's bold gendarmes are every- where these days, running in or running after the little boys who do no harm (or not much), and leaving the big professional swindlers at......

No Taste For Buns

IT is hard luck on Peter Palumbo that he can point to a hundred property developers who get their dirty work designed by ruler and setsquare without any of the obloquy that......

Greenbacks For Greenspan

THE dollar is perking up, a phenomenon which we tend to notice as the pound perks down, and the Bank of England, which bought $4,760 million of foreign currency for the reserves......