25 FEBRUARY 1989, page 40

High Life

Phony war Taki our-letter words are banned from this column. Seven-letter words might just slip through. However hard I have tried, I've been unable to come up with a more......

Home Life

...wish I wasn't Alice Thomas Ellis I travel as little as possible. I hare packing and I hate unpacking more. Tick - ets and passports and travellers' cheques are bureaucratic......

Low Life

Wish you were here... Jeffrey Bernard ingapore, the stop-off on the way to Sydney, was a disappointment. The great Japanese-financed consumer society thousands of shops......