20 SEPTEMBER 1997, page 30

Unfinished Business

NOW that he has his opposite numbers' attention, Mr Brown will remind them that they have unfinished business. It is some- thing that fell off the edge two years ago, when their......

Audible Exporters

THE exporters themselves have at last declared an armistice. It was overdue. There are no feuds like the feuds between rival promoters of good causes, and the good cause of......

Some New Comet

WHAT takes Mr Brown to Bangkok? Why, a meeting of the Asem finance ministers. And what is Asem? It is the Asia Europe Meeting, which has now spawned any num- ber of sub-meetings......

Collapse Of Stout Party

CITY grandees flying out to Hong Kong will be looking forward to receiving their stiff cards with gilded crests. As I wrote from Washington, when the IMF and World Bank met......

No, No

IN THIS column last week I caused the River Tweed to run north-westwards. It just goes to show what English nationalist fervour can do.......

City And Suburban

Gordon Brown heads out into tiger country with a prescription for mange CHRISTOPHER FILDES T his is the week when the world's finance ministers get the chance to meet Gordon......