1. Richard and Judy gave "caring TV" a whole new meaning with an experiment involving three couples. What was it? 2. Lord Jakobovits, a former chief rabbi, angered delegates at the International Council of Jewish Women last week. What did he say? 3. ...

Women who have been abused are individuals; it is patronising to claim to know what all women want. Some want their men to be changed so they can stay with them without being abused, some want their men sent to prison so they and their children can g...

AIDAN FOSTER-CARTER Shipley, West Yorkshire "LET HIM who is without sin cast the first stone." So far Christopher Hitchens may well have been sinless. For the sin of unforgiving meanness, for pretending that titillating details are matters of public ...

Since 1993 things have got even worse. Thorp has failed to meet its targets. It was 16 months late reaching full commercial operation, and this year alone the plant was closed between April and August after a leak. Further overseas contracts for its ...

During one day last week my patients included somebody receiving antibiotics given by me intravenously and a patient receiving chemotherapy, also given by me. I continued to teach a newly diagnosed diabetic how to administer her insulin. I shaved and...

Second, Mr Boyle was a hopeless advocate of changes whose rationale was never apparent, other than the revelation that the BBC had convened a series of focus groups whose members thought whole swathes of the Radio 4 schedule were old hat. Smug and pa...

And rightly so. Of course, no professional body of 330,000 can be composed exclusively of saints, and the job itself offers many opportunities for the expression of sadism, from the subtle to the brutally explicit. I never hear a young nurse call an ...

I wish I had gone to the police when I experienced violence in a relationship. Instead I was pressurised by others to do nothing. L WILLIAMSON London E17

When I embarked upon my career as a scrivener, there were a great many words considered too fruity or risque to print. "Humid" was one, "moist" another. In fact, there were over 103 different parts of the body alone on the proscribed list, updated ea...

Why is it, then, that on hearing the news I did not immediately throw my metaphorical mortar-board into the air? After all, I am an English teacher. Surely I should be even happier than most at the promise of this Great Leap Forward in mass literacy....

For the past few years on trips back to the North, I have from time to time bumped into the other, more cheerful Tony, who speaks for Sedgefield at Westminster and nowadays the other way round too. He has usually been opening things. Mr Blair has bee...

BOX 9: Other gifts Exhibit 223/14A: Copy of Bridget Jones's Diary, inscribed "love M. (wt.13st, 4lbs; cigars: 1(!))" and bookmarked with official "Airforce One" Post- it note, containing handwritten calculations converting stones into pounds and the ...

ALUN WILLIAMS Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Gwynedd

STEAMY, torrid, exceptionally uncomfortable - Manhattan's weather did its best to replicate the atmosphere in the Clinton White House when the First Fondler arrived in the city on Monday for a series of Democratic Party fund-raisers. The unseasonal w...