28 JULY 1990, page 19

Better Shred Than Red

SHREDDED Wheat is on the move. The cereal oven-scrapers have been sold en bloc by Ranks Hovis McDougall for £97 million, and it is said that the new owners, Nestle and General......

Pointy Ears

HOW does the Treasury do it? Is there a cloning laboratory, somewhere down those endless puce corridors, where they pro- duce indistinguishable youngish ministers and set them......

_city And Suburban

No power to the people, but tell Ski: Hanson is as Hanson does CHRISTOPHER FILD ES J ohn Wakeham is a minister for impro- ving the Government's communications, a point which......

Bulletin Bulletin

THE Bank of England's Quarterly Bulletin burst upon the waiting world with all the impact of a feather falling on a blanc- mange. So, alas, said its first reviewer, Roger Opie......

Off The Record

TUT, tut, Ffangois, these Brits are nothing but a lot of round-eyed Japanese. Quite so, Helmut, I can't think how we ever let them in. Our predecessors . . Quite so. They......