11 SEPTEMBER 1993, page 23

City And Suburban

The Chief Secretary talks a good game but has yet to play one CHRISTOPHER FILDES A nong the malign consequences of an autumn Budget is that the preliminary skir- mishing goes on......

New Court's Old Boy

NORMAN LAMONT never made much of a dent in his cushion at New Court. Still, he was N. M. Rothschild's first Chancellor or second, if you stretch a point and count Disraeli — and......

. . . The Times

`SOME DAY,' grumbled Northcliffe, 'there will come a limit to my capacity to stand Times annoyance.' The figures were dismal and, to compound his misery, the paper had printed......

C'est Un Cygne

IT'S ALL GO at the Office of Fair Trading. A team of its dauntless investigators has just got back from a week in Paris, where they have been checking out the Bourse. You might......

Collision Course

THE REVOLVO merger, like most merg- ers, looks more like a takeover to me. Renault has the advantage of being backed by the French state, Volvo has been losing its Swedish......

Devaluation Of . . .

DEVALUATION is spreading. First the pound, then the franc, now the Times. The paper's economic pundit, Anatole Kaletsky, always eager to urge devaluation on others, will......