Norman Conquest
CELEBRATED assiduously for most of this year, the Bank of England's 300th birthday has finally caught up with us. My present is Geoffrey Madan's account of Governor Montagu......
Jim Would Be Proud
OLD SCHOOL ties at the Treasury, which now has three Etonian ministers (and a Harrovian) out of its total of five. Harold Macmillan was wrong: we need fewer Eto- nians and more......
That's My Boy
JUST WHAT we need: Son of Hyman. Some found Joe Hyman temperamental he could hurl a mean inkwell — when ICI set him to re-organise the textile industry and lent him its cheque......
Champagne For The Chaps
WE ALL HAVE our remedies for Lloyd's of London — dismantle it, say I — and a new and persuasive one reaches me from John Rew, the antibody in Lloyd's blood- stream. If Lloyd's......
City And Suburban
A nice surprise for David Hunt the City has taken to thinking ahead CHRISTOPHER FILDES I hope that David Hunt is interested in the future of our leading export industry. He may......
Making It His Business
NOW MR HUGHES must catch his minis- ter on the right day, when Mr Hunt is not preoccupied with the wonders of science or staffwork. He might mention that, over at the London......
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