18 AUGUST 1990, page 49

Low Life

Shock treatment Jeffrey Bernard T here were two nasty shocks waiting for me when I came home from hospital. No, not buff envelopes. I discovered that the woman who lives above......

High Life

Climb every mountain Taki ne of my few virtues is a total lack of Schadenfreude — until, that is, I arrived in Gstaad and thought of those hundreds of thousands of fools frying......

New Life

Vive la difference Zenga Longmore N ow that she's six, my niece Kuba has reached an astonishing level of maturity. A few days ago, as we gazed at sprawling Brixton from my......