26 MAY 1990, page 19

The Lower Depths

Richard Lovelace on the spiritual poverty of the new slums I HAVE travelled quite widely, perhaps to 80 countries: except where there is famine, the worst poverty is in England.......

If Symptoms

persist... LAST week I went to prison — not for correctional purposes but as an `expert', to determine whether there were ex- tenuating circumstances in a case of incestuous......