24 NOVEMBER 1984, page 21

City And

Opening time I t was Reggie Maudling's ambition as Home Secretary to make the pubs open normally on Sundays. The secret was simple, he would say: 'All I need to do is to appoint......

Licence To Print

A business which can make a £1,198 million profit on total costs of £45 million is one that we should all be in. That (I was saying last week) is the banknote business, as......

Truncheons Against Punks

A demo in the sacred Square Mile — whatever next? Answer, no doubt: another one. They have become quite familiar: miners marching through with bands and banners, or occasional......

Early Birds

S eoul is the singular choice for the ....,bankers' trade fair — officially, the International Monetary Fund meetings — next year. Already bankers are bobbing to and fro, on......