Safe Bets
PORTFOLIO it JOHN BULL British Petroleum, after all, is not going to be allowed to buy $300 million of petrol stations in the United States from two merging com- panies,......
De Gaulle's Celtic Twilight
Sir; Sir Denis Brogan (7 February) pleads with some heat that the importance of the grandes ecoles in France is too great, and should be diminished. I wish to point out that the......
Sir: Mr Waugh Is Either Being Excessively Stupid Or...
disingenuous (Letters, 14 February). I challenged him to produce evidence that I had 'cried out for ever more savage penal- ties.' In reply he establishes that I made two direct......
In Defence Of Students
Sir: I always enjoy Auberon Waugh's articles, so much so that I even took the opportunity to go and see him on the platform at a Biafra meeting recently (and very good he was,......
Market Report
CUSTOS Equities remain unsettled. Measured on the Financial Times ordinary share index, prices have fallen back by 81 per cent during February. The bear influences are the......
The Grand Old Dukes Of The Lse
LETTERS From Dr E. J. Mishan, Francois Villaneau, L. E. Weidberg, Quintin Hogg MP, Thomas W. Gadd, Professor Geoffrey Barraclough, Dr Cornelius O'Leary, Tom Boardman MP, R. L.......