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Undercover Work

MY pioneer work on the City's•undercover geography has been enriched by Keith Cordwell of Lowndes Lambert, who tells me of a wet-weather route from Tower Hill station to Lloyd's......

The Uses Of Power

I AM old enough to have gone to the very first press conference of Hambros Bank. `Are you going into unit trusts, Mr Ham- bro?"Well, yes, we do plan to start some.' `Why, Mr......

City And Suburban

A scaring trip by Fraser Nash through the Home-buying Counties CHRISTOPHER FILDES M y cousin once owned a 1934 Fraser Nash of which he said that the engine would do 80 m.p.h.......

Hands Off Our Tax Haven

I LEARN from the Wall Street Journal, which learned it from the Inland Revenue, which probably wrote to me but knows that I dare not open the envelope, that Britain is refusing......

A Knight At The Club

FOR the man who has everything: a knighthood for Evelyn de Rothschild. It is the last in a tradition that honours the retiring chairman of the City's most exclu- sive club, the......

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