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EXPORTING is something we are good at — more than a third of our total output of goods and services is sold abroad — but you would not think so from the Queen's Awards for......

Up The Hill, Quick March

WHEN Mr George was a junior subaltern, his seniors would rush out and march inter- est rates to the top of the hill. The idea was to show that, from there, rates could only......

Fysshey Business

I THOUGHT so: it's a hold-up on the Dart Valley Railway. A few weeks ago its share- holders were startled to hear from an outfit called Value Investments, offering to buy their......

City And Suburban

All this sitcom needs is a guest appearance by the grand old Duke of York CHRISTOPHER FILDES I t is time that the Duke of York was recalled to the colours. He is all that the......

Karki Drill

I APPLAUD the initiative of Kishun Dhoj Karki, who has smuggled himself and three kilograms of hashish into Australia by pass- ing himself off as the finance minister of Nepal.......

An Inspector Calls

WHAT a versatile chap Geoffrey Robinson is. Variously active at home and abroad or offshore, as he might put it — he is the government's resident tax reformer, signs its cheques......