28 AUGUST 1999, page 27

Hamlets' Revenge

GONE are the days when the great Arthur Trinder, general manager of the Union Dis- count Company of London, would arrive at his desk at 11 o'clock for a smoked salmon sandwich......

City And Suburban

Wait for it, but the time will come to move out of houses and into the Ritz CHRISTOPHER FILDES I am getting ready to sell my house and move into the Ritz. No hurry, of course,......

It's Superalan

ALAN Greenspan has dropped the other shoe and, in the room below, the markets can relax. They have been waiting restlessly for him to raise dollar interest rates for the second......

Shortage Of Stock

ON an island almost entirely made of coal and surrounded by fish, Aneurin Bevan said it would take a government of genius to cre- ate a shortage of both fish and coal. Gov-......

Called To Account

IT IS selfless of Tom King to argue that Brussels should no longer be a dumping ground for politicians. Under happier stars, Mr King — a minister for 15 years, an MP for nearly......