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It has been put to me that tentative talks are back on after takeover chit-chat fell apart a

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It has been put to me that tentative talks are back on after takeover chit-chat fell apart a month ago.If Williams and Pilks both lost their independence it would free Sir Nigel to take the chair at Marks & Spencer. He has a lot of fans in the City and I am not alone in wanting to see him as the man who puts the filling in my prawn sandwich.uTHE OTHER man I might trust with that task is Larry Ellison, who runs the mighty Oracle Corporation in the US. Given Sir Nigel presides over an erstwhile conglomerate in the shape of Williams, I wonder whether he is offended by Lord Hanson's suggestion. The question may be moot since I hear that Sir Nigel would be more than happy to hand the keys to the Williams kingdom over to Tyco, the US group with which he has had two sets of abortive merger talks. There is renewed gossip that Pilks is in the bid frame again.

Was it ever thus? Intriguingly, Lord Hanson phoned a couple of weeks ago to reassure me that the conglomerate as a corporate beast is not yet extinct and will soon return.M'Lud identified Pilkington as a prime target for a classic conglomerate raid. You may have thought it was the eclipse which only comes every 70 years and lasts for two minutes, but passengers on the DLR have another answer.uONE MAN who may well have time on his hands is Sir Nigel Rudd of Williams and Pilkington fame. He confides that the next total eclipse that coincides with the release of the Bank's report occurs on 12 August 2026 The eclipse will be visible in Iceland, Greenland and Spain. The inflation report will be opaque everywhere.uTALKING OF investment bankers, who was that man clinging precariously to the coupling mechanism of a Docklands Light Railway train yesterday morning? Chaos on the DLR (Dead Loss Railway) led to chronic overcrowding and the silly banker chose to ride shotgun outside to Canary Wharf. He has kindly brought forward the release of his inflation report to avoid being eclipsed by the eclipse.

I abandon my Totally Blitzed Wine and Cheese breakfast at Lily's early and head instead for the office. I am fed up of her forcing me to stare at the Sun whilst swigging a rather nasty Muscadet and listening to her wittering on about getting blind drunk. I arrive some time after 11am and find the hooded Sith warrior staring skywards "It makes you go blind," I whisper I have never seen anyone re-adjust so quickly "Are you game?" I inquire He nods It is a pity I did not wait 24 hours. Today is August 12th - I could have shot him. uON MY way to Bank station I bump into Mervyn King, deputy governor of the Bank of England. AT LAST I wreak my revenge on Darth Grump.

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