21 JANUARY 1995, page 21

If Symptoms

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Takeover Of The Teenage Scribblers

David Martens is alarmed by the extreme fashionability of journalism among the bright young things: who will do the real work? ENGLAND in the year 2000 will be a nation not of......

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Rebecca Nicolson, whose mother, uncles and maternal grandparents were all alcoholics, wonders why drink is no longer demonised WHEN a famous figure from the arts world dies of......