Police have issued this video of Euro-sceptics leaving the scene of the crime T he Government was beaten by 22 votes (314 to 292) on an amendment to the Maastricht Bill. Mr...

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A possible reason why the Sunday Times is so concerned for Mrs Rimington's safety AUBERON WAUGH 0 ne does actually have to buy food, even in my position,' said Stella...

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Robert Fox unveils the Nato military plan to invade Bosnia: it only awaits the politicians' approval THE HOTEL Dalmatia offers about the best accommodation in the frontier...

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persist.. . ONE OF the questions which the doctor is enjoined to ask prisoners as they are received into the bosom of our penal sys- tem is whether they have ever had any...

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Sir: 'It may have been the sight of all those Cuban women in their 'dirty underwear' or all those 'middle-class women on the game', but John Simpson must have been hallucinating...

Sir: Paul Johnson dwells on the endemic corruption rife in most member states of the EEC and points out the difference between them and, so far, the UK (And another thing, 27...

enfranchise- ment may look for support from Sidney and Beatrice Webb (Socialism: True and False, 1894): Fabianism has no desire to see the Duke of Bedford replaced by 500...

Sir: Frederick Lawton's discussion of the shortcomings of our penal system (Prison is not enough', 27 February) reminds me of an incident which took place whilst I was at...

Sir: As my contribution to the correspon- dence in your pages concerning the Hous- ing and Urban Development Bill, may I point out that an anagram of 'Sir George Young' works...

Sir: The Secretary of State for Education in `Just keep rolling along' (30 January) claims that it was a Tory government that gave the vote to women in 1918. Lloyd George did...

Sir: Mr Auberon Waugh (Another voice, 27 February) has stated that 'it is no longer possible to tell an American's sex by its name'. Is this his own opinion, or did he find it...

Sir: Robert Ballantine (Letters, 6 March) asks how many of the Catholics at Sunday Mass in England are English? I cannot give any precise figures but without dotIbt the answer...

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Jane Gardam TENNYSON by Peter Levi Macmillan, £20, pp. 349 his study of Tennyson is the latest to be published to commemorate the cente- nary of his death in October, 1892,...

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