27 MAY 1989, page 23

City And Suburban

The pound tells ministers what to do and worse things happen at sea CHRISTOPHER FILDES been out in a Force 12 sterling crisis, like us old hands, you'll know that this is an......

The Sheep Shearers

THE reappearance of Kerry Packer prompts a question which has been wor- rying me for some time: who, in Australia, is there left to look after the sheep? Surely every......

The Backgammon Players

I SUPPOSE it is not Kerry Packer's fault that he appears to be photographed wear- ing a stocking-mask. His is not a face I would like to see looming up at me — and least of all......

Losing Their Marbles

MOST bankers (Ogden Nash said) dwell in marble halls/Which they do to encourage deposits and discourage withdralls. Barc- lays' ancestral halls in Lombard Street, a massive......