The Daily Telegraph from London, Greater London, England • 94

MY LATEST DISCOVERY John Wells, actor and writer, recommends a market in north Italy were in the town of Como. The famous West Door of the Cathedral was in scaffolding and we wandered almost by accident into the huge hangar that houses the fruit and vegetable market. 'There is something about markets in Mediterranean countries: every vegetable and piece of fruit arranged in a kind of still-life firework display, landscapes of tomatoes and cabbages and purple aubergines, all piled in pyramids and towers. "Here, too, there were ranks of smoked hams, 80 different cheeses, live snails struggling to get out of their crates and, in one high room, nothing but flowers. Garden in the old days had the same smell and bustle, but you never saw so much pleasure in playing with shapes or making patterns, so much living art, all as ephemeral as a statue carved in The market in the Via Nentana opens Tuesday and Thursday mornings, and all day Saturday Next week: Elizabeth Jane Howard's new kitchen gadget THE LAST WORD Jonathon Green compiles a dictionary for today PC language An abbreviation for 'politically correct language', the vocabulary of ideological purity typically such synonyms as of colour' for black, and 'challenged' for disabled.

PC language, a relative newcomer to Britain, is positively rampant in America, especially in universities. Such language militates against 'dead white male' (ie traditional) forms of culture, producing such excesses as the ultra-feminist lecturer who offers not seminars, but 'uvolars'. 10 TELEGRAPH MAGAZINE KINDRED SPIRITS Parliamentary flops Nesta Wyn Ellis 'I stood four times for Sir Robin Day Westminster and 'I took a big once for the European says the political parliament. Politics inquisitor who was a is in my says Liberal candidate the biographer of in the 1959 election. John Major.

'Even as a 'I had to cease my child I had an work as a newscaster. innate interest. I still A news bulletin have a diary I presented by an open wrote when I was 11 and committed political activist on political events wouldn't have been regarded as impartial' at home and abroad' Jonathan King 'I draw the line at kissing babies. But I'll always kiss dogs. I've got the doggy says the pop fo entrepreneur who stood for the Royalist Party in 1978 and as an independent in 1979.

for publicity, I thought, but it didn't help' Pamela Stephenson In 1987 the comedienne stood as the Put A Blancmange Down Terry Wogan's -Fronts candidate A A A 3 it, for she Maidenhead. Windsor said, and She because did an appearance on his show was cancelled. 1 fAl 12 She polled 328 votes SINONNVID (N 041 FIONA 2 'The politicians we 'I'm sure my training David Icke Brian McDermott BARBER. have in Westminster helped, but if you believe can't be trusted in something it comes ROBERT with the says says the actor who the former sports stood twice as an independent and once for the commentator, now. Free Trade Liberals.

'The British are apathetic about self-styled Messiah, politics but then most politicians are so dull' who ran for the Green Party. 'What the other parties Cynthia Payne are doing, at best, is 'I'd like to be remembered as the woman who trying to clean the changed our sex says the former teeth of the dragon brothel keeper who stood in the Kensington when it is the by-election in 1988. The founder of The dragon itself the Payne and Pleasure Party also intends to run in system that the next general election. 'I would make has to be cleaned' a good MP. I've had a lot of experience in life'.