2 MARCH 1991, Page 21

Wether or not

MY SYMPATHY goes to Sir Denys Hen- derson. This week he has suffered the double indignity of publishing dismal fig- ures as chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries and hearing himself called a bellwether. That is, in fact, the standard label for ICI and its chairman, and it is time for a new label, which does not equate him to an emasculated sheep. Sir Denys, though not bullish, is not sheepish, and he fires on all cylinders.