30 NOVEMBER 1985, page 22

City And Suburban

When tin-pot governments welsh on their debts like tin-pot companies CHRIS TOPHER FILD ES M etal fatigue has spread from the modest home of the London tin market to become an......

Unholy Mess

LORD Williams, the former banker now on the Labour benches, chose this week to hearten the defaulters by proposing an alternative scapegoat. He asked the Gov- ernment for an......

Promises, Promises

WONDER what has become of the two canvas chairs. We used to see such a lot of them earlier this year, when Burton was trying to take over Debenhams. The chairs were dreamed up......

Catharsis

OH FOR a Lytton Strachey to chronicle Lloyd's of London! After Eminent Victo- rians, Noteworthy Citizens? He found a phrase to describe Oxford's parting with John Henry Newman......