23 JUNE 1990, page 23

Touch In Goal

NOW that the takeover merchants have reached the football clubs, with Heart of Midlothian bidding for Hibernian, the national sides must follow. World Cup form suggests that a......

Missing The Boat

BRITISH Rail's high-speed link is now in action, stretching for some 15 miles across rich countryside, carrying trains at 125 mph and engineered for higher speed. This is the......

I Want It Now

I AM uneasy to find Robin Leigh- Pemberton, Governor of the Bank of England, lecturing the nation on its social attitudes. Thrift has gone out of fashion, so he told a dinner of......

Chronic Fimbrosis

FIMBRA: a state of terminal obscurity (Latin finis, an end, and umbra, a sha- dow?). A modest species of aquatic life? A ligament at the base of the spine, subject to painful......

City And Suburban

Foolish virgins get their come-uppance as Trump goes misere CHRISTOPHER FILDES I t had not until now occurred to me to classify Donald Trump as a foolish virgin. He has run out......