7 FEBRUARY 1987, page 23

City And Suburban

British Airways, middle-class equivalent of the frostbite fiver CHRISTOPHER FILDES F asten your ejector-seats and prepare for take-off. British Airways shares are accelerating......

Cote D' Or

MY CITY host at Corney & Barrow insisted on ordering the Julienas. 'Look how the wine list describes it, he said, just like me: rich, powerful and aromatic.'......

Cash And Carry

THIS seems an odd moment for the Securities and Investments Board, de- signed as the investors' protector-in-chief, to pick a quarrel with the high street banks. More obvious......

Until Proved Innocent

IT IS a sure sign that the merger epidemic is on its way out when we see a general rush to offer miraculous cures. The Takeover Panel itself, now looking more like a case than a......

Who's A Fraud?

SCANDAL in the City! False markets, rigged prices, £600 million missing! WE NAME THE GUILTY MEN. They are the members of Her Majesty's sanctimo- nious Government, who, when not......