Hey, Nonne, Yes Grunts Of Dismay Are Greeting Stephen...

He has been briefed to review the flow of funds to industry, and has focused on the way that dividends are taxed. Does the tax structure, he wants to know, make companies pay......

£765 On The Clock

NABC (Not Another Bloody Committee) and I have a market for our Swedish clock which, as I noted last month, tells you how much a meeting is costing. You programme the salaries......

Eating For England

A WEEK of weighty dining sees me dodg- ing from the Natural History Museum, where the gold bugs feed amid the dinosaurs and creepy-crawlies, to the Ban- queting House in......

Flash And Grab

A NEW form of capital raising has been pioneered in the Low Countries, where six Dutchwomen suddenly appear in super- markets naked from the waist up. To me it suggests nothing......

Glyndebourne-sous-mer

THIS MONTH'S case study on City short- termism, dividend greed and all that: £858 million of new share capital and another £750 million of loan finance are being raised for a......

City And Suburban

Dividends shouldn't be wasted on shareholders buy Wimbledon tickets instead CHRISTOPHER FILDES I t was my father's view, from many years' experience as a company chairman, that......