11 APRIL 1998, page 26

Drink Up, Look Unhappy

THE Blairs are going to Spain for Easter and I do hope they contrive to look properly shamefaced. No doubt Alastair Campbell has schooled them. In the past they might have had......

Soap Gets In Your Eyes

THE catch question now — the $64 ques- tion, as we used to call it when dollars bought more — is whether the American market and reality have parted company. The doubters say......

A Nice Place For Lunch

MY BID for the Savoy group is still on the table — the one in the Grill, on the left, by the window. I speak (you will recall) for a consortium of lunchers who want to put it on......

On With The Motley

NOW that American banks have the money to spend on each other, this week brings the biggest merger of all: Citicorp plus Travel- ers equals Behemoth. A London bank chairman......

City And Suburban

It's witchcraft: bubble, bubble, toil and trouble, their shares halve and your shares double CHRISTOPHER FILDES Y ou might wonder whether Japan and America are on the same......