31 JULY 1993, page 22

Supergnome

I AM TAKING out a short position in George Soros. To me, he looks overbought and overdone. I do not grudge him his profit from selling sterling on Black Wednesday — even the......

Penned In

I ENJOY watching Pen Kent in the Shirley Temple part. It suits him. He holds hands with the quarrelling tunnellers under the Channel, and the great reconciliation scheme......

City And Suburban

Take a pig Dr Euronymus Bosch explains how not to make Gosky Patties CHRISTOPHER FILDES I thought that by way of a change from high Euro-finance, we might turn this week to the......

Play It Again

MY DESERT ISLAND would not be com- plete without the Confederation of British Industry's record of a call for lower interest rates. This golden oldie is going round again, for......

They Have Their Exits

ONE OF the hazards of Italian commercial life is suicide. It must date back to the Bor- gias, or the emperors. Raul Gardini, the sugar baron, appears to have shot himself, but......