7 MARCH 1992, page 23

Nice Run, Roger

ANYONE who is chairman of the London money market and of the Cresta Run is used to living dangerously. Calculated risk, a more pompous man than Roger Gibbs might call it.......

A Word From The Governor

THE ELECTION campaign was close-run when Lord Cromer intervened. Speaking with the authority of a former Governor of the Bank of England, he told a television interviewer that......

City And Suburban

Norman Lamont must run for his life or be turned into dog food CHRISTOPHER 1 -, II DES I can now forecast with confidence what will happen at 3.30 p.m. on Tuesday of next week.......

Dear Mary, Please Copy

NOTE on City etiquette: a friend of mine was commissioning invitation cards from a printer who is also a friend. Engraving? Yes, certainly. Gilded edges, rounded cor- ners? The......

Cheques On Posterity

WHAT worries me is the prospect of cheques on posterity, drawn by a Chancel- lor prepared to spend now and borrow later. Always at this time of year the Trea- sury leaks out......