12 OCTOBER 1985, page 26

Coal's Ghost Walks

BEFORE Ian MacGregor pulled the plas- tic bag over his face, but after it became clear that a green baize cloth might have been better, I was musing in this column (July 14,......

The Wages Of Fear

MARKETS, so we learned at Sir Patrick Sergeant's knee, are ruled by greed and fear. Greed fosters financial disasters: fear brings them into the open. How salutary, then, to......

City And Suburban

If Norman can't slay the Serps, Nigel must give us the Pips CHRISTOPHER FILDES W e have scotched the Serps, not killed it. The Macbeths had the same trouble, and look what......

Forte Vs Savoy

LORD Forte takes issue with the Savoy Hotel directors over their claim (City and Suburban, September 7) that Trusthouse Forte had shown itself a willing buyer of Savoy shares at......