Not A Cat's Chance
I CAN see that if a cat could smell eels on the other side of its cat-flap, it would be encouraged to go in and out. Better still if the flap were transparent. This may be why......
Lords And Lloyd's . . .
GIVING evidence to a commmitee of the House of Lords can be unnerving. It entails (or so I am told) being questioned by peo- ple who you thought had died several years ago. As......
Burning Urgency
HERE comes the next mad cow crisis: a shortage of cattle crematoria. This industry is new to me, but I gather that burning 50,000 cows a year would stretch it to capacity, and......
City And Suburban
From the fearful hole, Jean Force-Majeure and Sir Ken report on Lightatendoftunnel CHRISTOPHER FILDES S ir Kenneth Clarke, the ebullient co- chairman of Lightatendoftunnel,......
Impaled On Morton's Fork
OVER at Eurotunnel, Sir Alastair Morton has been working on these principles, and can be said to have taken them further. Six months ago he stopped paying interest on the......
. . . Need A Sinking Fund
MR JUSTICE DARLING once addressed the Classical Association on the subject of the Iliad. The Greeks, he said, sent out a lot of ships, most of which sank — and as far as he......
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