12 MAY 2001, page 53

Classic Beginning

Robin Oakley F or country folk summer arrives, I suppose, with the hedges and the duck ponds springing into life. Townies tell it more by the first chiming of the ice-cream vans......

Boardroom Gloom

Taki MRougemont y spies tell me that the Albemarle wedding in Havana was the best ever, which makes it so much harder to take. Instead of sunning myself with scantily dressed......

Words Of Wisdom

Toby Young I 'm sitting in the Blythe Road Restaurant in Brook Green when my mobile rings: it's my ex-flatmate, Euan ReHie, calling to tell me he's just got engaged to my......