11 NOVEMBER 2000, page 80

Singular Life

Driven to distraction Petronella Wyatt W hen I see the queues at petrol sta- tions, those poor automatons, prisoners of the car, hunched over in miserable servi- tude to the god......

Bridge

Expert analysis Susanna Gross JUST WHEN I think I might be getting good at this game, I meet a true expert who plays on an altogether higher plain. The other day at my club, I......