21 OCTOBER 2000, page 78

No Life

Tabloid turn-off Toby Young I hoped to be writing this from a desert- island hideaway somewhere in the Caribbean, having retired with a small for- tune, but alas it was not to......

High Life

Cultural despair Taki ked to name his favourite book by that symbol of cheapness and hoopla, Oprah Winfrey, Al Gore replied, The Red and the Black. Now there's nothing Al Gore......