Diplomat of the week
“Old Bush is just a cowboy with his Stetson on”
John Prescott recognises a kindred spirit in the President
Promise of the week
“If he does, I will shoot myself”
Roy Hattersley reacts to the notion of John Reid becoming Labour leader
Equality of the week
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“It was all ladies talking about Botox”
A shaken member of MCC relates listening into a group of women at Lord’s
Confession of the week
“In my bedazzlement as a Hitler Youth, I didn’t ask the questions — didn’t ask the right questions”
Günter Grass, the Nobel prize-winning author, reveals his membership of the SS
Anti-feminist of the week
“It is hard to repress certain wilful nostalgia for the erotic dimension of pedagogy”
Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at Cambridge, misses the day when tutors could “paw” their undergraduates