12 JUNE 2004, page 79

Net Interest

FRANK KEATING E ngland play France this Sunday in soccer's European nations' championship. Experts bill it as the seminal match of the three-week tournament. For all his......

Q. I Have An Etiquette Question For You. I Came

back from Egypt with a stomach bug the other day, was overcome by nausea on my way across Westbourne Grove, and had to choose between vomiting in the gutter or in the litter bin......

Q. I Have Taken Over Editorship Of The Parish Newsletter

in our village and have given a column to a neighbour with a keen ear for lively local gossip, much of which she picks up when out walking with her dog and which has been......

Q. The Successful Social `exocet' — 'not In The Street,

thank you' (The Spectator, 17 April) — reminds me of my grandfather (then a peer) replying to a personal remark made by a yob at some sort of civil disturbance in the 1930s:......