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Q. My Daughter, Aged 19, Is Proposing To Take Out

a student loan in order to have her teeth whitened. It is not the borrowing of money I object to so much as the fact that her own teeth are not in any way discoloured. Please......

Q. At The Age Of 39, I Have Belatedly Realised

that all the time I have not spent riding to hounds has been life wasted. I have no money, hunting has just been banned and my wife does not want me to become paraplegic. What......

Q. May I Be Permitted A Small Addendum To Your

various correspondents’ suggestions as to what to wear at fancy dress parties? I remember back in the early 1960s bumping into Vyvyan Holland, Oscar Wilde’s son, at a fancy......

Old Haunts

FRANK KEATING T he opening two weekends of rugby’s Six Nations championship were listlessly lacking in panache or brio. England and France have been generally dire,......