12 JANUARY 1985, page 11

In Kinnock's Flightpath

Richard West Miami-Managua-Miami T o fly from England to Nicaragua, with an overnight stop in Miami, all you need is a valid United States visa and this, I discovered on New......

One Hundred Years Ago

Lord Wolseley has decided to make an immediate rush on Metemneh, close to Shendy, where the Mahdi . has stationed a force variously estimated at from 5,000 to 3,000 men.......

'aren't You Scared?'

Christopher Hitchens New York T he speaker was a young man who had followed me into the lobby. I had watched incuriously as he came through the door; it was late at night and I......