14 MAY 1994, page 39

Even Better Than Me

Julie Burchill IF YOU'RE TALKING TO ME YOUR CAREER MUST BE IN TROUBLE: MOVIES, MAYHEM AND MALICE by Joe Queenan Picador, £5.99, pp. 267 J oe Queenan is the funniest writer in......

The Wheel Spins, The Pendulum Swings

J. Enoch Powell THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE: THINK TANKS AND THE ECONOMIC COUNTER-REVOLUTION by Richard Cockett HarperCollins, £25, pp. 390 6 W hat a dust do I raise!', exclaimed......

The New Gap

One time I'd have said that wood had little chance against stone. Until I noticed what a growing tree did to Patrick's wall I'd have said that wood was much like flesh and bone......