16 DECEMBER 1989, page 24

Service Contracts

PUBLIC service broadcasting (defined by its practitioners as 'What we do, old boy') has some odd effects on those who do it. Look at TVS, the company with the plum franchise for......

Hush, John . . .

JOHN MAJOR has been rallying his back- benchers with talk of inflation and unem- ployment. What with statements in the House, questions, debates, run rounds with the Treasury......

City And Suburban

Water, wine and an unconvincing claim for popular alcoholism CHRISTOPHER FILDES A watery smog of self-satisfaction comes drifting down from Whitehall. The Government's new......

. . . Noel, Nigel Message Of Seasonal Goodwill For

Nigel Lawson: who says they never come back? Compare V. P. Singh, who resigned as Rajiv Gandhi's finance minister and dis- avowed higher ambition, saying that he would make a......

Paper Chase

BRITAIN as the workshop of the world may have lost some of its markets, but when it comes to printing bits of paper and selling them to foreigners we are still tip-top. Our unit......