26 OCTOBER 1996, page 79

Spectator Sport

Life and works Simon Barnes Thus a hagiography becomes by easy stages a hatchet job. The biographer who feels his love has been betrayed by the life of his love-object reacts......

Your Problems Solved

Dear Mary.. . Q. Every time I come to London I find other pedestrians bump into me in the street rather a lot. How can I go about pre- venting this annoyance from happening?......