18 OCTOBER 1997, page 54

Funny Peculiar More Than Ha-ha

Teresa Waugh GHOST CHILDREN by Sue Townsend Methuen, £12.99, pp. 192 h e brief opening chapter — or rather avant-propos — of Sue Townsend's new novel, Ghost Children, is a......

Clerihew Corner

The result of Michael Jackson Wanting to be a shade more Anglo-Saxon Is that after umpteen operations He's a one-man disUnited Nations. James Michie......

App Etitio Diviti Arum Infinit A

Robert Oakeshott I have watched the most able men and women of my generation, who might have created unexampled monuments in moral philosophy, mathematics or engineering, waste......