21 JANUARY 1978, page 15

Man Of Misery

Christopher Booker Early in 1882, Richard Wagner was in Palermo. At the age of sixty-eight he had just completed his last great work, Parsifal. He had scarcely a year left to......

Giving Away The Rod

Enoch Powell I am opposed to judicial corporal punishment, always have been and, so far as I can see, always shall be. I am even more opposed to the question of that penalty in......