The much-loved author, who died last week, wrote for the Guardian for more than 30 years. Here are edited extracts from some of her most memorable columns 24 February 1997 Harsh new world Apparently, the children are under great stress nowadays and no wonder. The world is going down the drain and they must go with it. Here we are, plagued by Third World Debt, pollution, corruption, festering mountains of nuclear waste, rampaging new disease, poisoned hamburgers and Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals. No wonder today’s youth seem rather wild...