14 JANUARY 1989, page 42

Home Life

Boxing day Alice Thomas Ellis I was sitting on Glasgow station when somebody remarked aloud, `Och, this is disgusting.' I turned my head and saw an old lady regarding a meat......

High Life

Fame and fortune Taki have started to write for a new Amer- ican monthly called Fame, a glossy that pays the kind of moolah the late Christina Onassis's husband would consider......

Low Life

Big bad Woolf Jeffrey Bernard A strange thing happened last Thurs- day evening. When I got home and closed the front door behind me, I had a sudden pain in my chest as though I......