10 MARCH 1990, page 25

Competitive Edge

I AM disturbed to learn that the most popular television advertisement in Japan is for a health tonic called Regain. The ad has a jingle which runs: 'Can you keep it up for 24......

City And Suburban

Fraser, Guinness and the tree-surgeon show three rival models of justice CHRISTOPHER FILDES I can find it in myself to feel sorry for Malcolm Gooding, who left the City to take......

Farewell Symphony

A FRIEND on Wall Street telephoned me the other day: was it true, he wanted to know, that an unspecified number of Cabinet ministers were resigning over the poll tax? The......

Dupes' Gallery

THE House of Fraser report is damning. Large chunks of the City, Whitehall, West- minster, and (let us face it) the financial press were all fooled, and some of the dupes were......

Walker, Thruster, Booster

THE young Peter Walker was posted to the Department of Trade and Industry, when the idea was (as it so often is) to turn that old regulatory ragbag into a Depart- ment of......