Banks In Turmoil
`THE MAN to note in this week's reshuffle at National Westminster Bank is Derek Wanless. My man on the Lothbury gallops says that he is a future winner of the Chief Executive......
A Line Drawn In The Sea
WILL SCOTLAND vote for indepen- dence? In the interests of England, I can't wait. They will get the fish and we shall have the oil. That is, so long as nobody interferes with......
City And Suburban
Lost in the fog of war, ministers call in vain for Sir Humphrey CHRISTOPHER FILDES T he British people, being subject to fogs and possessing a powerful middle class, require......
Feeding Frenzy
A HAPPY new tax year to all my readers. The old year ends this week. New Year's Day is Monday, and the festivities are more frenzied than usual — because of the elec- tion and......
Abandon Ship
THE ROYAL NAVY offers to sell HMS St Vincent, now moored in South Kensington. This stone frigate turns out to be a large stuccoed terrace, which, according to the silent......
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