8 JANUARY 2005, page 34

Escape From Blackpool

Michael Vestey I wasn’t sure there was much more to say about the late Alistair Cooke, who died at the end of last March at the age of 95. An excellent biography of him had been......

Suburban Fun

Simon Hoggart T he point about Desperate Housewives (Channel 4, Wednesday) is that it’s not remotely a feminist tract about women obliged to live as slavish appendages of their......

Sense Of Perspective

Robin Oakley T he Soviets had sent a dog into space before they sent Yuri Gagarin. When the astronaut Gagarin, after his feat, came to London, he was mobbed by admiring crowds,......