28 SEPTEMBER 1991, page 29

Rich, Bland And Nutty

WAFTING across the North Sea from Dutch ovens comes the unmistakable smell of monetary fudge. Rich, bland or nutty, it can suit all tastes. John Major liked the flavour at......

An Old Retainer Writes

IN congratulating The Spectator's editor, Dominic Lawson, on his engagement to be married, I reflect that I was first appointed to the paper by his father. Indeed, if I last as......

Brent Wobbler

THIS IS an anxious week at Brent Walker — can the company survive as far as Friday, when it is supposed to be having a shareholders' meeting? Or Saturday, when it is booked to......

City And Suburban

Here comes another round of Guinness, but there's moaning at the Bar CHRISTOPHER FILDES W hat, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom? Roger Seelig and Lord Spens,......

You Cannot Be Serious

I AM sorry to learn that Charles Haughey, the Irish Prime Minister, plans to give his scandalised country a serious fraud squad. There are quite enough of them already, and I am......

In City And Suburban Last Week, Mr K. C. Wu's

name was misprinted.......