Privatise In Peace
NEITHER Peter Simple nor John Keegan has told us, but I think the Royal Army Tailoring Corps has its headquarters mess in a colossal country house near Harro- gate. The Georgian......
A New Terror
TO ADD a new terror to death was the achievement of Edmund Cull, who in the 18th century waited for his subjects to be safely dead and then rushed out instant biographies. The......
Bends In The Road
THE sage William Deedes used to get lawyers' letters threatening ruinous actions for libel, if he did not at once retract something on the City pages of the news- paper he was......
Steam Up
THE new George Stephenson fiver, show- ing the father of railways at the Stockton & Darlington (1825), is going down badly at the Middleton Railway, established by Act of......
City And Suburban
Europe of choice, or an early symptom of Chancellor's Itch? CHRISTOPHER FILDES I do hope that John Major has not succumbed so soon to Chancellor's Itch. It is, of course, the......
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