City And Suburban
On from Monte Carlo, China makes its bid for the financial Olympics CHRISTOPHER FILDES T his is the week of China's attempt at an Olympic double. In the Spartan sur- roundings......
No More Mr Nice Guy
IT WAS a gambit of the previous Chancel- lor, whose name for the moment escapes me, to call in the High Street bankers and tell them to be nicer to their customers. This......
Labour Of Lunch
THE LABOUR Party comes to Brighton leading in the polls but trailing in the City. No prejudice, of course, but markets live by anticipation, and their leading indicator does not......
Oval Test
ONCE UPON a time our eggs had lions on them, put there by the British Egg Marketing Board, and shopkeepers were prosecuted when they tried to scrub the marks off. Eggs without......
Ring Of Bright Water
THE CITY'S protective ring of bollards seems to have got up the noses of ministers who failed to think of it first. Perhaps Michael Cassidy, whose brainchild it was, should have......
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