The magazine’s British editor, James Truman, commissioned Wagner to write a strip about Hollywood, inspired by Wagner’s cult novel Force Majeure, about a Hollywood screenwriter. A Fringe-First winner already, this shows Binnie doing what he’s best at, but it would be refreshing to see him write a play in which sexuality was more incidental. They dismissed remarks made on Monday by the French Minister for European Affairs, Elisabeth Guigou, that Europe ‘will not wait indefinitely’ for Britain to ratify the Maastricht treaty ‘We will proceed a douze,’ one British official insisted. We have taken away a couple of licences recently, which ironically had been taken out by solicitors.’The Council for Licensed Conveyancers can supply an information pack and a list of members. And despite the stock market delight that greeted his new regime of regulations, he insisted that he was offering ‘a better deal for customers’.
Lara made just six off nine balls before falling to the veteran spinner David Graveney to add to his previous scores in the competition of 19, 11 and nought. And similar worries have been raised by the American Civil Liberties Union, which is leading opposition to the provision.Eric Sterling of the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation dismisses the measures as ‘a vote-getting, headline-getting policy’. Gazing up from the emerald fields, I felt that the scene perfectly echoed Shakespeare’s description of England, given to the dying John of Gaunt: ‘this precious stone set in the silver sea’.A pillar of smoke, rising from our neighbours’ stable bonfire across the fields, vanished as it came level with the ghostly woods, white against white, and as I stood staring,a further minor miracle occurred. Swansea: Try Appleyard; Conversion Williams; Penalties Williams 2.Llanelli: I W Jones; A Richards, N Davies, S Davies, W Proctor; J Strange, R Moon (capt); R Evans, A Lamerton, H Williams-Jones, P Davies, A Copsey, P Jones, S Quinnell, L Jones.Swansea: A Clement (capt); M Titley, S McIntosh, I Lewis, S Davies; A Williams, R Jones; I Buckett, G Jenkins, R Shaw, M Evans, R Moriarty (S Moore, 78), A Reynolds, P Arnold, R Appleyard.Referee: R Yeman (Taibach).. Many, including the following, are delicious.WHITES AND CHAMPAGNE*****1985 Alfred Gratien Champagne Brut ( pounds 19.50) Very stylish and elegant.****1991 Rully Mont-Palais Premier Cru, Olivier Leflaive ( pounds 8.25) Soft and oaky, a ‘new world’ style of Chardonnay, with fruit and buttery, biscuity flavours.****1986 Chateau Lafaurie-Peraguey, Sauternes ( pounds 9.95 per half bottle) Very sweet, honeyed, oaky, tangy and richly concentrated.*1992 The Society’s Vin d’Alsace, Hugel ( pounds 4.85) Floral, delicately limey and spicy.REDS AND PORT****1988 Churchills Traditional LBV Port, Bottled 1993 ( pounds 9.95) Sweet, gutsy and fruity.***1992 Domaine du Moulin Rigaud, Minervois ( pounds 3.95) Interesting, complex flavours.***1991 Freycinet Vineyard Pinot Noir, Tasmania ( pounds 11.65) Big, and bursting with raspberry fruit.***1990 Domaine du Grand Tinel, Chateauneuf du Pape ( pounds 8.95) Robust but not over-tannic, and herby.***1989 Chateau Carteau Cotes Daugay, St Emilion Grand Cru ( pounds 8.70) Big, rich and fruity, with raisin, savoury and chocolatey flavours.**1989 Rioja Navajas Crianza ( pounds 4.95) Soft, wild strawberry and prune.**1992 Domaine de Brezet, Cotes du Marmandais ( pounds 3.95) Lovely ripe raspberry and savoury flavours.**1991 Angel Gully McLaren Vale Cabernet Sauvignon ( pounds 4.65) Soft, very fruity Australian.WAITROSEFindlater Mackie Todd/Waitrose Direct Freepost, Deer Park Road, Merton Abbey, London SW19 3TU, tel: 081-543 0966. He has attended meetings of the British National Party in Sunderland, and – according to Searchlight, the magazine which monitors the far right – has been on marches in Germany and Belgium commemorating Hess’s death six years ago.Hess’s flight in May 1941 remains one of the most bizarre episodes of the Second World War. It is currently pounds 44 a week.A wife using the excuse of child support can in effect get increased maintenance for herself.
After European elimination, Walter Smith’s side might have been expected to exact revenge at Stark’s Park but Raith players scored both goals – one for Rangers unfortunately – in the 1-1 draw. NIGEL MANSELL’S learning curve continues to be steep, and as he secured third place yesterday on the grid for today’s Molson IndyCar race here, he was again having to get to grips with a new circuit and find out how his Newman-Haas car will behave. He saw me and stood up, weary from his toil, yet clearly proud of the beauty he had created. Some people, just about everything they do is funny; that’s how he is, there’s something comic about him. He added that the group was considering other opportunities.Bottom Line, page 25.
In common with Whitehall sources, the Home Secretary emphasised that last week’s statement by Douglas Hurd, the Foreign Secretary – that there was no question of the Government ratifying a treaty other than the one we negotiated – was unsurprising and uncontroversial.Denying that Mr Hurd had, in effect, threatened to withdraw the Bill if the amendment succeeded, so giving succour to the Tory rebels, Mr Clarke said the comments had been a ‘clear restatement of government policy’.Foreign Office sources also denied any shift of tactic in favour of resorting to the prerogative to side-step parliamentary opposition.The effect of a successful amendment 27 is unclear because while it removes the UK’s permission to opt out of the Social Chapter, it does not commit Britain to signing up for it.Mr Clarke sought to brush aside those technical uncertainties in a BBC television On the Record interview ‘The politics I think is clearer than the law. Not for the first time, the distinction between East and West is made in terms of social habits. What is in the stars for the City? A rare conjunction of slow-moving Uranus and Neptune promises a year of tumultuous change, according to Isabel Unsworth, a former City analyst turned astrologer. Occasionally it takes flight, as in Paul Lacoux’s obsessed account of the Librarian’s world of silverfish and binder’s glue, but elsewhere it is derivative and shows how canonic that style has become. He had tried staying silent within the Shadow Cabinet in the three years up to the last election.
