12 NOVEMBER 1994, page 24

If Symptoms

persist. . . EACH MAN, wrote Oscar Wilde during his spell in Reading Gaol, kills the thing he loves; but times have changed. Round here, each man punches the thing he loves on......

`i Hope We Get Something Juicy'

IT WAS a tabloid story and even the more sober of their number reported it with unexamined hyperbole. 'The Boy Beyond the Law', screamed the front page of the Daily Mail. 'Death......