12 NOVEMBER 1994, Page 32

Over and out

HOW CURIOUS to see the Walrus and the Carpenter — Tiny Rowland and Mohamed Fayed — as companions in misfortune. At Lonrho, the company cre- ated in his image, Mr Rowland has been Bocked off, and as for Mr Fayed, he has become the Palace of Westminster's ver- sion of Major James Hewitt. Even if we kissed, so MPs mutter, he ought never to have told. Peter Preston (in drag) is Anna Pasternak.