7 APRIL 2001, page 55

Superfluous Superlatives

Simon Barnes 'BLAST the sports pages,' said Marshall McLuhan, 'creators of pickled gods and archetypes.' We could, I suppose, design a new way of writing about sport, but we'd......

Q. The Other Night I Had Dinner In A Private

house. There were ten around the table. During dinner one of the other guests — a famously bitchy woman — made two or three jokes at my expense and a couple of crushing remarks.......

Q. I Have A Long-standing Neighbour Who Is Kindness Itself

and also does much for the local community. However, he is a caravan addict and frequently parks his caravan where it not only partly blocks my view, often for several weeks at......

Q. I Have Moved From London To Wiltshire, Where I

am fortunate enough to have accommodation suitable for entertaining large numbers of people. My problem is that, although the cellar contains plentiful amounts of reasonable......