20 JANUARY 2007, page 51

Your Problems Solved

Dear Maly Q. Is there a tactful way to invite certain favourite old friends to dinner but without their partners? I have no wish to exclude or be cruel to anyone, but I know......

Mud And Money

FRANK KEATING Day and night, night and day . . . relentlessly the football season slurps on through the January mud — mud and money, slurp, slurp — transfer 'windows', raucous......