Cardiff were still struggling to the touchline and were caught, if not napping, then dozing.David Love darted mischievously towards Cardiff's line only to be tackled dangerously by Richie Collins. Seeing Jake the Peg with his extra leg diddlediddledum was an unexpected pleasure, but nothing prepared you for Rolf in the smoke of battle singing 'Two Little Boys' to a perplexed gelding. These handy tools of modern communications have proved a boon to the French malcontent. I am spending the rest of my life to get my good name restored,' he pledged.Facing charges in the Iran- Contra imbroglio, meanwhile, is another former defence secretary, Caspar Weinberger, who served under Mr Reagan.

Sanjeev Bhaskar, who considers the Asian community 'depressed, repressed and oppressed', gave the audience much to be cheery about with his rendition of an Italian love song and impersonation of Elvis. A devoted Muslim, exiled from his country, his pen-and-ink drawings delineate a mystic universe which has affinities with the British master, William Blake. Usually, though, it materialises suddenly one sunny day in the shape of heavily-armed tanks while you are drinking coffee in a street cafe in your home town.The profoundness and the banality of this moment has been well captured by Czeslaw Milosz, winner of the Nobel prize for Literature, who was born in Lithuania. Of the asthmatic children who come to tea in our house, only one falls into the 'old' category of asthmatics - having had both eczema and asthma from infancy.

And in the profanely beautiful 'Et incarnatus est' the music seemed unable to relax, to enjoy itself for the wonderful, self-justifying thing it is, even given persuasive singing from a fine team of soloists. It would transfer work from highly paid Overseas Development Administration personnel to charity workers, who in many areas do the same job at a much lower cost. However, Mr Smith is not yet prepared to speculate on what trade-offs between benefits, assistance and incentives that might mean.Much - though not all - of this sounds distinctly more reformist than radical. But there was a readiness to discuss other areas of co-operation and consultation.Nato wants, however, to avoid giving the impression that it is creating a security 'condominium' in Europe over the heads of the Central Europeans. Giuseppe Recupero faces charges of wounding after Mafia pentiti alleged he ordered the 'kneecapping' of Antonio Pernice, a genetics professor, three years ago.. His latest book, Falling Off the Map (Cape pounds 14.99), is a series of essays on 'Lonely Places', by which he means oddball, reclusive countries like North Korea, Iceland and - he reckons anyway - Australia (doesn't this fellow own a television?).