29 JUNE 1991, page 21

Blatant Greed

THE unknown chairman, Robert Evans of British Gas, has at last got himself on the map. His BG pay rise is supposed to be based on performance. If so, it implies that he performs......

Seven Get The Itch

BAD news — Chancellor's Itch is conta- gious. That is the finding of research teams in the City and Suburban laboratories, where this blight was first identified. Stu- dies of......

City And Suburban

Time to bet against the crowd at Lloyd's of London CHRISTOPHER FILDES I f Lloyd's of London were a share, it would be cheap. So much bad news is out that, as the stock market......

Midland V. Moose

SOME folks — as Moose Malloy said when he flattened the barman in Farewell, My Lovely — have the wrong idea about when to get tough. This includes the Midland Bank. It has......