26 JULY 2003, page 55

Triumph And Disaster

MICHAEL HENDERSON It is often said that sport holds a mirror up to society. Thank goodness nobody has told the golfers. In a week of rank behaviour, which has heaped shame upon......

Q. A Colleague Who Sits Next To Me At Work

has a propensity to break wind violently whenever he feels inclined to do so. Far from being embarrassed by these eructations, as I imagine most people would be, he seems to see......

Q. My Mother-in-law Is Getting On A Bit Now, And

is not the woman she Was. On recent visits to her house, she has served my husband and me with only partly defrosted chicken (which we then had discreetly to dispose of without......

Q. I Am About To Have A Novel Published But

am not famous enough to merit a string of profiles in the press. How do you suggest! go about getting some publicity? J.M., London NW3 A. Go to the tabloids purporting to be......