2 MAY 1987, page 42

Low Life

Party politics Jeffrey Bernard W ho the hell invented the wine-and- cheese party? It has to be one of the most ghastly functions devised by man since the stag party. It was......

Home Life

In two minds Alice Thomas Ellis My usual course when faced with a single magpie is to bow low and utter a Gloria; Janet affects not to recognise the creature and remarks airily,......