High And Dry
T he great City crash must be nearer than we think. Witness the exchange be- tween two of the City's most potent forces: one, just about its biggest wine-merchant; the other,......
Express Courtship
D ear boy (says our most successful magazine publisher), printers are like girls. Love them, but don't let yourself marry them. The time will come when you need to give them a......
Coal Tip
V igorous ante-post betting on the Coal Board Stakes suggest that the search is now on for Ian MacGregor's successor. Early favourite Sir Michael Edwardes is now drifting in the......
Putting On The Ritz
here is jam for the lawyers' tea at the 1 Ritz. They can thank the Al Fayed brothers, now taking over House of Fraser. The brothers already own the Ritz in Paris, and claim to......
The Staghounds
T he bold gendarmes of the City like to run in the little boys who do no harm — it keeps up their arrest rate — but leave the serious villains safely on the opposite side of the......