7 JANUARY 2006, page 35

Opium Of The People

FRANK KEATING I stoked up some good log fires over the holiday, and with a box or two of Thornton’s Continental Selection was snug at the hearth with two British histories on......

Q. A Friend In The Fashion World Telephoned Me To

say that she was sending round a handbag worth £400 for my Christmas present. She told me frankly that she would not normally spend £400 on me but she had been given this bag by......

Q. I Am Disturbed By Your Recent Correspondence...

Maserati and a father wishing to show it off at his child’s school. When I was at my convent in the mid-Sixties, my mother had a bright blue Ford Galaxy, an American car with......

Q. One Of My Friends Has Become A Counsellor. Now

when I see her at dinner parties she often tells me that I am ‘codependant’ or ‘repressed’ or suffering from having ‘blurred boundaries’. She then warms to her theme and carries......