Next, Diamonds
CAPTAIN John Bongo writes from Johan- nesburg, where he was sent by the late Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire on a mission to buy arms. This has left him with $250,000 in hand — a......
Stuart Lands The Odds
I MET Stuart Wheeler at Oxford, where he was applying his disciplined mind to the odds at bridge and poker. He went on to take bets on gold. In the repressive climate of a......
City And Suburban
Gordon Brown stages his Good King Wenceslas act, and guess who's the lucky winner CHRISTOPHER FILDES T here must, so I thought, be a catch in it. Just answer a few simple......
Going Round In Cycles
THE catch is, of course, that I have paid for my prize already. We all of us work for the Chancellor until the end of May, so I am not impressed to be told that at Christmas-......
Leave It Alone
STANDARD Life is the biggest mutually- owned life assurance office in Europe, so it must have done something right, and mutu- ality may suit it. That premise will be put to the......
Pontification
I MAY have spoken too soon in praising HSBC's prescient decision to sponsor Nor- man Foster's millennium bridge, which opened on Saturday, bounced, and has closed again. My......
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