4 MAY 1991, page 23

Feuding Cats And Dogs

I AM obliged to the Souvenir Press, which has sent me a review copy of Vivienne Angus's Know Yourself Through Your Cat. It offers an unusual insight into our leaders of business......

Out To Lunch

NOW we know what the Department of Trade and Industry is for. Peter Lilley, the man in the revolving chair, had been wondering. It is for getting between a stockbroker and his......

Btr's Golden Pensions

I AM told not to be beastly to Sir Ian MacLaurin, just because Tesco is suddenly paying him £11/2 million a year. He is said to have done a splendid job. I should think it even......

City And Suburban

Norman Lamont has a lost weekend but a winning game CHRISTOPHER FILDES N orman Lamont flew to Washington and back for the weekend. It is pleasant at this time of year, the......

Banham's Bane

Sell Unilever. That company — as a rule the most boring, for its size, in the world — is about to succumb to Banham's Bane. The disease, named for the genial director- general......