Cut Price Ritz

FOR a big-hitting bonus earner — say, a general partner in Goldman Sachs — this Christmas offers the chance to buy an unusual present: the Ritz Hotel. Its owner, Trafalgar......

City And Suburban

Thank you for our smashing Christmas bonuses, kind Uncles Eddie and Helmut CHRISTOPHER FILDES I do hope the City boys and girls now opening their Christmas stockings will......

Civilised Fudge

WHEN NOT selling Government stock, the Bank of England has another line in its hand. It sells Premier Quality Fudge. Wide- ly thought to be the secret ingredient in the......

Ten Days' Wonder

THE CABINET committee on not making up its mind about bank holidays has turned its attention to the twelve days of Christ- mas. My man in the stationery cupboard says that the......

Absent Friends

A FRIEND OF mine has returned to top up his seasonal goodwill, after a frustrating time spent trying to do business in Italy. The trouble is, he says, that he needs to deal with......

Booking The Cooks

I SHALL MISS the Treasury's Christmas party this year. I missed it last year, but that was because of the previous incumbent, who had, understandably, weeded his list. This year......