10 NOVEMBER 1990, page 24

A Gale For All Seasons

The press: Paul Johnson recalls an oldfriend and former Spectator editor GEORGE Gale belonged to an en- dangered species, the educated journalist. His English was superb: clear,......

If Symptoms

persist . . . LAST week a patient arrived dressed like the late Enid Starkie, in all the colours of the Rimbaud. To put it another way, she reminded me rather of the Perdita......