24 JANUARY 1987, page 40

Low Life

End of the line Jeffrey Bernard I have just had a letter from an old lady who lives in Suffolk. She is 82 years old and she wrote to say that it wasn't much fun for her to have......

Television

Fine figures Wendy Cope H ating numbers, they rattle down to zero.' This line by Michael Hofmann has been rattling round my head all week. It comes at the end of a poem entitled......

High Life

Meeting Mr Koch Taki New York I have met Ed Koch, the bald, vulgar, effete and publicity-seeking mayor of New York only once, and that was enough. Although Koch was an opponent......