28 JUNE 1986, page 25

Listening Post

FOR someone whose retail business has been described as making the Co-op look like Laura Ashley (City and Suburban, 13 June), John Roberts is remarkably cordial. He is managing......

Wall Game

FROM Lloyd's lost leader, Ian Hay Davi- son, comes a mine under the City's pro- liferating Chinese walls — the fortifications which will be supposed to stop a bank's investment......

City And Suburban

Europe's Court broods over the crime of bringing business to London CHRISTOPHER FILDES E urope's supreme judges must now turn away from the too-easy task of teasing the......

Big Bang

TO BE Governor of a central bank is now a high-risk occupation. In Israel (as I was saying the other week) you get fired, and elsewhere you get fired at. That is apparent in......

Hoggish Morals

THERE is a moral to the sad tale of RFD, which makes equipment for defence, safe- ty, and survival (those aircraft life-jackets) but could not save itself. It has fallen to a......