Not a cat's chance
I CAN see that if a cat could smell eels on the other side of its cat-flap, it would be encouraged to go in and out. Better still if the flap were transparent. This may be why baby eels and see-through cat flaps have won their exporters the Queen's Awards. Weetabix, too. The long list suggests, as usual, that this country leads the world in selling dinky notions — hops and plastic picture frames are also on it — and, as usual, our most successul export business scarcely gets a look-in. Two insurers (one of machinery, one of gold bullion) must stand for the exporters of financial services who earn £20 billion for the balance of pay- ments every year. The Chancellor's new City panel, which is meant to help these exporters, ought to take their cause up. The Queen, who lends her yacht to help their efforts, must think them as worthy of her Award as Weetabix.
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