The Small One
THE cobblers' children go barefoot, and the accountants can't control their costs. Their firms get bigger and so do their fees. As the Big Eight merge, where are the economies......
Own Goals
I SHOULD like to see the game of football charged with bringing Robert Maxwell into disrepute. Instead the Football League has the nerve to threaten to charge him, because he......
City And Suburban
Unplug Frank the CBI can show us how to do better CHRISTOPHER F I LD ES 0 h dear, oh Frank. Another lumber- ing, patronising, fabulously expensive promotion to get another load......
The Flemming Succession
A vacancy on the Court of the Bank of England. The economics director, John Flemming, is off down the road to join Jacques Attali at the new European Bank for Reconstruction and......
Tickled Pink
I am tickled pink to see the Financial Times in court, trying to stop the Evening Stan- dard printing its City pages 'on FT Peach or any other shade of pink.' There were pink......