12 APRIL 1997, page 21

Know All About You . . . '

. . . said Mr Mandelson to Michael Horsley, who tells what it's like to be the great spin doctor's Tory opponent at Hartlepool WHEN I first met Peter Mandelson I was still a......

A Statesman Neither Then Nor Now

Leo McKinstry questions Roy Hattersley's right to be granted elder status by the BBC STARTING this week, and continuing every morning until the election, Roy Hat- tersley joins......

Mind Your Language

I WAS going to vacuum the drawing- room floor, but was prevented by an enquiry from Mr Colin MacIvor, who wrote to ask what spoonerisms were called before Dr Spooner (1844-1940)......