28 JANUARY 1989, page 25

. . . Felis Major

WHAT tickles me is that the Treasury has two Cabinet Ministers, and that John Major, the Chief Secretary, has the knack of soaring up the ladder in good times and, in bad times,......

Ursa Minor ...

THE bad news is cheering up the markets no end. Estate agents shutting down, the building societies promising less money, the CBI with the confident smirk off its face, the......

Papal Blast

THE City pope has slapped down Monsig- nor William Rees-Mogg. The Monsignor, you may recall, has been preaching marital fidelity between companies and their banks, but as a......

City And Suburban

The Walrus case: 'Be you never so high, the law is above you' CHRISTOPHER FILDES T aking sides between Tiny Rowland . and his erstwhile friends the Al Fayeds is like choosing......