Mashed Bananas

Sir: Having read John Rowan Wilson's article on matoke (July 24) which he says "has all the delicacy of flavour of last week's boiled potatoes at a British public school," I......

Fine Tub

Lone yachtsman Chay Blyth has returned from his circumnavigation of the world in fine condition. He looks a better advertisement for British bully and hard tack than for the......

Bank Back-scratch

Do you know that if you ask your local bank manger to buy a few shares he sends your order to his head office who in turn tells a stockbroker to fulfil this individual......

Young Heffer

Eric Heffer, the forty-nine year old Labour MP for the Walton division of Liverpool, boasted in the House of Commons last week that he started life as the butcher's errand boy......

Jobs For The Villains

I find very puzzling a statement such as that made by Mr Mark Carlisle, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Home Office, that the present "prison popula tion " on May 31......

Juliette's Weekly Frolic

Royalty did all I could have asked last Saturday, but the gutless opposition melted away and left him a useless 11 to 4 on — if only a similar situation had developed in William......