All Wind And Excuses
THERE are parts of the British economy where an excuse is considered as good as a product. This may explain why the men from McKinsey find our productivity so dis- appointing,......
City And Suburban
About this recession that's not going to happen it will be your fault or probably mine CHRISTOPHER FILDES N ow let's get this clear. There's not going to be a recession. Not......
Baring Crisis
I AM sorry to learn that Berkeley Play- house, the lap-dancing club, has gone bust, if that is the word I am looking for. Berke- ley was one of last year's more sporting new......
Bah, Baa
MORE trouble on the line: BAA, the ovine airport operator, bleats that not enough people are using Heathrow Express, its shiny new train that goes whizzing into Paddington. They......
It's A Budgette
IN Gordon Brown's long-running series this one was a budgette. The first half was rhetoric with a few figures and forecasts thrown in, like plums into a pudding. The second was......
Liffe Saving
LIFFE, London's market in financial futures, lives over Cannon Street station and had got ideas above it. That much was evident to Brian Williamson, its new chair- man, when he......
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