16 FEBRUARY 2002, page 58

Teenage Rats

Taki IRougemont was going to write about the 25-yearold female teacher whom a jury judged not guilty of raping teenage boys, but then the sainted editor took the words right out......

Just Listening

Jeremy Clarke 0 n my 45th birthday I rang up the Samaritans. I wanted to become a volunteer, I said, and the lady on the other end of the phone arranged for me to attend an open......