Skinflint's City Diary
I would like to add to Nicholas Davenport's recent cautionary tales about the oil industry the following thought: will the capital market be able to keep pace with the oil......
Sweet Missive
The Times, Friday 26 March : 'Post Office investigation officers were try- ing to find out yesterday how letters came to be blocking a lavatory at Croydon main sorting office.......
Lording It
It was Robert Benchley, I think, who said that you could divide the world into two kinds of people : those who divided the world into two kinds of people and others. Two kinds......
Tony Palmer
Last week, a fine comedy called Father's Day by Oliver Hailey closed on Broadway after just one performance largely as a result of a hostile review in the New York Times by its......
Export And Be Damned
The Rolls-Royce crash was supposed to be a salutary lesson to all irresponsible strikers. It wasn't. They went on as if it had never oc- curred. But it has struck deep into the......
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