11 SEPTEMBER 1999, page 53

Television

Fake tension Simon Hoggart T he nice thing about a holiday in France is that you don't need to see their ghastly television, with its endless self-ref- erential discussions.......

Not Motoring

University challenge Gavin Stamp Well, I would still rather go by train whizzing along the Great Western main line and then on the branch to Oxford, crossing and recrossing and......