Sparks And Taxes
THE Energy Group, which is powered by Eastern Electricity, is brought to the stock market and makes a flying start. Yorkshire Electricity finds an American suitor who is anxious......
Travelling Light
IT IS a pity that Mr Wolfensohn fell out with his crisp chief of staff, Rachel Lomax, who had arrived from the Treasury by way of Downing Street and has now returned to bide her......
State Of The Union
THE Union Discount Company of London cannot be long for this world, and I shall miss it. For more than a century it was the money market's right marker. Arthur Trinder, its......
Post Mortem
NOW that Deng Xiaoping has found his place in a crematorium for heroes, it would be indelicate to ask what length of time elapsed between his death and its announcement, or what......
Very Like A Whale
K INGSLEY Amis records that his contem- porary Phili p Toynbee was inspired to write an epic in blank verse. He was then 'inspired to go through the verse again, ma king it......
City And Suburban
The demon king moves back to centre stage, bathed in a soft pink spotlight CHRISTOPHER FILDES N ew Labour, new demons. In Old Labour's demonology a special place in the ninth......