Superior Wisdom

TRUST a Balliol man to know better. In the college's Annual Record, Randall Pardy writes: 'Fortunately the Economist could not have been more wrong and oil did not go to $5 a......

First-class Business

BANKS are being gobbled up like egg sandwiches at a picnic, but I never thought to see the Morgan bank go straight down without touching the sides. It is disappear- ing into......

Stem Nej, Stem Ofte

OLDER and wiser persons told Nicholas that there could not possibly be a frog in his bread and milk. Nicholas (who appears in a story by Saki) knew better. He had put it there......

Par For The Course

THE latest McKinseyite in place is Roger Holmes, chief executive apparent at Marks & Spencer. He is said not to be brilliant with people and knows no more about sell- ing......

City And Suburban

A popular win as the City's farmers and truckers see off the McKinseyite nannies CHRISTOPHER FILDES G rangemouth has come to the City, says the merchant banker happily. The......

A Law Of Gravity

THERE are some offences so grave that, when they are suspected, the rules have to go by the board. Treason? Terror? Mur- der? No. Insider trading, or running a slush fund, or......