4 MAY 1996, page 24

Infernal Combustion

The plan for cow-powered electricity, which I reported here last week, seems to have been anticipated by the French inventor Alphonse Allais. His self-propelled Necro- mobile,......

Gordon And George

THAT was George. The new Mr Brown is called Gordon. He too is full of ideas about how the economy ought to be run — vision, investment, the long view, the growth divi- dend —......

City And Suburban

Brown studies how to ginger up the Treasury more vision and a new brass plate CHRISTOPHER FILDES T he long-lived Tory Government was tottering towards its end. Its Chancellor......

J. Rubber Chicken

WHEN J. Adair Turner worked for McK- insey, people used to pay for his advice. Now he is making it freely available, it is becoming a drug on the market. I could feel sorry for......

Don't Tell Sid

FORGET Railtrack. Here comes the rail sale I have been waiting for. At long last Offrails (or whatever its acronym is) is offering the franchise to operate its railway on the......