5 DECEMBER 1981, page 32

Television

Too dreary Richard In grams H aving mocked the SDP to begin with, the media men, in the week of the Crosby by-election, have now become verY deferential indeed, as though aware......

High Life

Honest living Taki New York A s if New York accents, rude Puerto Rican waiters, brutish black taxi drivers, and third-rate television programmes were not enough, my stay in the......

Low Life

In writing Jeffrey Bernard I bet there's not many of you nice people who can provoke a personalised, dedicated, first and only edition of a poem, but I managed just that last......