18 JUNE 1994, Page 26

Iggles v. Buggins

GREAT WAS the City's umbrage when the Prime Minister decided that a knighthood for the Lord Mayor of London should no longer come up with the rations. Paul Newall, who was the first to miss out, has proved a cracking Lord Mayor, leading from the front, beating the drum in Japan and Korea and Saudi Arabia, and sporting a cat (Iggles) worthy of Dick Whittington. So his knighthood in the birthday honours has been earned. The point ought not to be lost on the City fathers, when they are next tempted to elect Alderman Buggins as Lord Mayor Buggins just because it is Bug- gins's turn.