Farmed rainbow trout is widely regarded as a water-exuding, flaccid travesty of what was once a fine, athletic fish. Brill’s curvaceous form (‘She’s all pneumatic breasts, tiny waist and landscape bottom,’ drooled one editorial) and her 40-24-39 measurements were dubbed by Rootstein ‘The Shape of the Nineties’ with much trumpeting of curves as the new [...]

THERE are too many shops selling too many clothes in Britain. This year, but for the pending cases, the profit would have been pounds 20,000.Mr Platt expressed his concern yesterday that, under libel law, publications were particularly vulnerable when third parties were included in actions. Gold producers, who have sold into every rally over the [...]

In those cases ‘where it was on the borderline, silence seemed to make a charge more rather than less likely’. The following minuet was wonderfully blithe; a near-perfect performance. None the less, Clive Mendonca should have given them the lead in the 16th minute. Germany for the Cup.Poland have been banned from staging international matches [...]

A HEADER by Daniele Massaro took Milan to the brink of their third successive Serie A championship when they beat their closest rivals, Sampdoria, 1-0 yesterday, writes Clive White. ‘In a typical constituency there are around 1,300 people aged 15,’ Mr Jessel went on ‘A quarter of them smoke. However, they refuse to touch the [...]

The idea of using an electromagnetic pulse to fire a projectile was patented at the start of the century, but the idea really caught on with President Reagan’s ‘Star Wars’ initiative a decade ago. The Denny trial is due to begin soon.’All that people want is justice,’ Ice-T says ‘Critics say they want to riot [...]

But what is the ‘tradition’ of the modern police force? An embattled refusal to discipline its officers? The creative use of the interview room? A passion for passing the time of day with black motorists? Tradition long ago ceased to be a word that could hope to evoke an uncontested virtue, particularly in a form [...]