31 JANUARY 1987, page 23

City And Suburban

Teaching Lloyd's of London to see itself as other's see it CHRISTOPHER FILDES T he right place to build Lloyd's of London's new headquarters was on the San Andreas Fault — or......

Ralph Roister Doister

I CAN keep a straight face about Sir Ralph Halpern and his friend Fiona (`daft little bugger', says her photographer: 'you'd think he could do better.') It is well known that......

Due Discredit

IT IS nice to find the Governor of the Bank of England in gubernational form — haul- ing bankers in by the ears, throwing out their inadequate responses, decreeing who and what......