City And Suburban
The Barclays branch at Little Pottering reopens with a visit from Sir Topham Hatt CHRISTOPHER FILDES A ter the branch line, the branch bank. We say that we loved them but we......
The Fatwah Strikes
THE trouble with Barclays is not in the branches but at the head office. I have long maintained that there is a fatwah on this bulbous monster in the Moorish taste, known to its......
Ken's Word, Ken's Bond
KEN Livingstone says that the Internation- al Monetary Fund is still appalling and the IMF could say the same of him. A cynical prime minister (not that we have one) might have......
Aunt Hattie's Legacy
GORDON Brown is living the Antiques Roadshow dream. This begins with an ugly old pot in the hall, which used to belong to Aunt Hattie, no beauty herself. It has been used to......
Appearance Money
IT'S a dog's life, being a non-executive director. Chairmen keep holding meetings on Wednesdays, which mucks up both weekends. Worse still, all these codes — Cadbury, Greenbury,......
Chancellors' Luck
HE has certainly been luckier than a previ- ous chancellor who, less than a decade ago, was increasing the National Debt by a bil- lion pounds every week. By way of bolster- ing......