27 JUNE 1992, page 24

Men And Power...

HE WOULD not find it difficult to find something more businesslike than the cum- brous council, 28 strong — it must remind him of old-style bank boards, which needed microphones......

Credentials

THE EVENTIDE home for jokes which serves the Financial Times for a diary col- umn found room, this week, for a true vet- eran. This is the one about the job applica- tion — 'she......

Keystone Cops

GEORGE STAPLE has something to learn. From the ordered calm of Clifford Chance, the lawyers, he has been plucked to preside over the Serious Fraud Office and has at once been......

...cash And Charity

BEFORE Lloyd's can plan its future, though, it needs to make sure that it will have one. It has a civil war on its hands. Until the other day the council was seen to be flying a......

City And Suburban

A signal in Morse that Lloyd's of London must change from the top CHRISTOPHER FILD ES L loyd's of London must be the only business in the world to stop production for the day by......