30 MARCH 1991, page 23

Wig Interpretation

NOW that Mr Justice Cocklecarrot has hung up his wig, we have to get our laughs from the run of the mill Law Reports, and I must say that they approach Beachcomer standards.......

Making It Happen

I CONGRATULATE Nicholas Jones, the bids-and-deals maestro of Lazards, who is to be chairman of the National Stud. In accordance with modern boardroom prac- tice, his appointment......

Swiss Misses

BEWARE of the baker of Swiss rolls who says that his corporate treasury is a profit centre. A bank might as well seek to boost its profits by baking Swiss rolls. Allied Lyons......

A Mouthful Of Dust

MICHAEL Heseltine, Norman Lamont and I are all stuck behind the same corporation dustcart. I saw it the other day in Manchester, bearing the municipal liv- ery with a new......

City And Suburban

Itchy directors and institutional sheep, lemmings, and elephants in mangers CHRISTOPHER FILDES D irectors, so a merchant banker ex- plains, get bored with managing their......