16 DECEMBER 1989, page 39

Low Life

Too hot to handle Jeffrey Bernard L ike infants and geriatrics, diabetics have priority when it comes to having a shot of flu vaccine. Well, you could have fooled me. I have......

High Life

Toeing the party line Taki ast week I flew into London, went through Customs unscathed, and was in a taxi and homeward bound while some of the rich were still deplaning. The......

Television

Table talk Wendy Cope L ast week's big television event was The Mahabharata (Channel 4), which I missed because it was too long to go on a four-hour videotape. There didn't seem......