12 JANUARY 1985, page 31

Low Life

Source of wonder Jeffrey Bernard T he label on a bottle of Smirnoff vodka in front of me states that Pierre Smir- noff ceased purveying the stuff to the Czars of Russia in 1917.......

Postscript

Soame Jenyns P. J. Kavanagh • T owe an apology to readers for reverting to a topic, but it is others, not I, who will not leave it alone. For instance, only yesterday in the......

Home Life

• Casualties Alice Thomas Ellis T once heard a person remark with great Ifeeling, 'I hate babies.' He didn't really hate them at all, but I knew what he meant — all the......