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Anglo-saxon Attitudes

WHO WOULD have thought that the laws of supply and demand would get through to Oxford University's Honour School of English Language and Literature? The dons now think of......

Sleeping Partners

COMING shortly to the City: the Thread- needle Street Hotel. The planners have blessed it and the Merchant Taylors are behind it. (Their hall will be next door.) It must face......

Howard, Come Home

IT'S THOSE regulators, you see. They COs! more and more, and all in the name of investor protection. This is why ABN Am ° i Asset Management says it is putting u p ts charges on......

Make Tokyo Cheap

VENTURING into Fortnum & Mason, I find myself charged by a phalanx of Japanese shoppers. They are worthy of their martial ancestors, and the weakness of their currency does not......

City And Suburban

Slipping into a hole, the Chancellor senses that he may have to dig again CHRISTOPHER FILDES t happens to chancellors, sooner or later. Like the privy-builder in The Specialist,......

Last Exit From Lloyd's

Al , 1ER THREE centuries the members of Lloyd's are an endangered species. Their numbers are down by three-quarters, only seven new ones joined last year, the aver- age age......