27 JANUARY 1990, page 47

Low Life

Turfed out Jeffrey Bernard A fter 20 years of having a metal press-badge to take me racing I have just been told that the badge committee of the Racecourse Association has......

High Life

Most unmannerly Taki ichael Thomas writes a column in the New York Observer, fortunately the smallest (4,000) circulation weekly in the Big Bagel. I say fortunately because the......

Television

Upstairs, downstairs Wendy Cope I f Spectator readers followed my recom- mendation and tuned in their thousands to the second edition of It Doesn't Have to Hurt (BBC 1, 6.15pm,......