10 JUNE 1989, page 51

Low Life

Weak at the knees Jeffrey Bernard L ast night I dreamed that I was back at Pangbourne again. Forty years on and I am still troubled by terrible anxiety in my sleep. Well, I am......

Home Life

Muzzled by red tape Alice Thomas Ellis I have been asking myself why govern- ment is so perverse — why it loves telling us not to smoke or drink or contract Aids or throw our......