28 OCTOBER 1989, page 25

Health Warnings

THREE health warnings should appear on these bottles of snake-oil. The first would warn against the chronic defect of our European diplomacy, which goes back to George Brown's......

A Bonfire For Freedom

SCENE: a Swiss ski-ing resort. Enter a visiting Brit — JP, head of the family business, highly respectable — with the post. It includes a copy of the Daily Telegraph. How......

Yes And No

THE• Bank of England, required to admi- nister exchange control, took a libertarian stance from the start. H. A. Siepmann, head of the improvised department, put up a Home Guard......

City And Suburban

Snake-oil merchants try to bounce the Cabinet with talk of an instant cure CHRISTOPHER FILDES T here is a lot of snake-oil on the market these days. None is more pushily......