27 OCTOBER 1984, page 40

High Life

Cooling it Taki I 've made a pledge not to turn the heat on in my flat until Arthur Scargill defects to Libya. Although some may think this Is futile gesture (like pissing......

Cinema

Sports illustrated Peter Ackroyd The Natural ('PG', Odeon Leicester Square) T he film opens with that washed-ou t look which is characteristic of certain American paintings,......

Television

Humbugs Alexander Chancellor A lthough Mr Robert Maxwell is so unfamiliar with the Social Democratic Party that he persists, however often he is corrected, in calling it the......