28 MAY 1988, page 22

The Confidential Clerk

ENG. LIT. and Institute of Bankers Joint Board, text question: which poet wrote 'The currants were quoted at a price "carriage and insurance free to London", and the bill of......

Vintage 1992

HERE is what to say to Lord Young over breakfast — or Kenneth Clarke, if he is your host when the 1992 road show comes your way. Ask them what the single European market will do......

Commanding Heights

I AM surprised that the Prime Minister, preaching on the tenth commandment to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, did not, in that home of metrical psalmody, prefer......

City And Suburban

The Swiss won't cough up, so the biters can't be bitten — this time CHRISTOPHER FILDES R owntree was half-way down the Swiss throats by the time it was decided not to make them......