3 NOVEMBER 1984, page 12

Defence Of The Unfunny .

George Walden A lugubrious political season has cul- minated in an act of inhuman vio- lence. The Prime Minister, in her courage, tells us that life must go on. Mr Tebbit, in......

Shanghai'd

Richard West T he old Shanghai of the Twenties and Thirties has always been, after St Petersburg, the city I most wanted to visit except in the sense that, like most addicts of......