The English are all brightly clothed (Tilda Swinton as Lady Ottoline Morrell has a feather boa with a chameleon life of its own), as if to show up colourful dilettantism against the diligence of genius. I don't see why, just because I am black, I should have to have a particular perspective. 0 LIL FUCCILLO, the Peterborough manager, saw last night's Coca-Cola Cup fourth- round tie as a chance for his side to get away from their struggle at the bottom of the First Division. On one side are the free-traders, led by Germany, who argue that the single market should open Community markets to unlimited imports of cheap so-called dollar bananas from the Caribbean plantations. The quid pro quo for journalists would be a freedom of information Act and indemnity from privacy laws if they showed they had acted in the public interest. The improbable body-count for a rural and university beat - many of those 750 million foreign viewers must think Oxford is England's Detroit - is in one way a concession to genre but, as the contemporary experience of most viewers is of violence spreading ever closer to previously reliable tranquilities, may also serve as a microcosm of modern fears.Julian Mitchell's Another Country was about national hypocrisy, betrayal, decline and the British class system.

Scottish by birth, 1890s-ish by inclination, he seemed not so much a man divided as one who revelled in his various incarnations: the Oxford-educated litterateur, the dedicated BBC professional, the selfless talent-spotter, the demon-lover and lord of misrule, the exuberantly happy family man.Behind all these was the poet, and one whose work was more problematic: confident in its versatility, but less certain which of its several voices was the truest. There is talk of a cash raising operation to help fund the new TV channel, UK Gold. Mr Hurd used his speech at the Lord Mayor of London's Easter banquet at Mansion House to deliver his second implicit but unmistakeable warning in a month to anti-Europeans in his own party that 'our European policy is not an optional extra It is not a luxury. Their share prices have risen by 30 per cent this year.The big gap between the performance of small and larger companies marks a decisive break with the past four years.

A 'grammar' has all the connotations of a system of rules by which relations between parts can be observed; 'history' implies little more than a chronology of those parts, and one that has been pre- established at that. Want to touch the world? Tony has studied Nelson Mandela, Ronnie Regan, Steven Spielberg and can show you how it's done.Anthony Robbins says he has read 600 books. Mr Birt appears, by contrast, to be socialism with a human face.The second headline that had my eyes out on stalks was 'Elitist BBC admits it must go downmarket'. Allocation of shares will be announced on Monday.Henderson Touche Remnant and its rivals are investing in Japan in anticipation of economic recovery and a strong revival of corporate earnings. By the hour of curfew, 27 Palestinians with gunshot wounds had been brought to the hospital, another 13 to the Rafah hospital, and reportedly a further 25 to Al-Ahli clinic; 65 wounded by the Israelis in scarcely three hours. With his diplomatic status restored, he was appointed, under the ambassador, Count Edward Raczynski, the First Secretary to the Polish Embassy in London.As well as representing the Polish Government in Exile in London and Cairo, and campaigning against the destruction of Poland's art treasures, Leitgeber found time during the war to write and paint extensively. But in the National? There is no question that jockeys are even less scared now that the course has been softened, and for a minority even of the top riders, the mystique of Britain's toughest race is not something which extends to the weighing room.