12 NOVEMBER 1994, page 16

A Little War Is Good For Armies

Alan Judd, who served with the British Army in Northern Ireland, argues that the cessation of hostilities is not an unmitigated joy THE FIRST British Army victim of the lat- est......

Italy's Obsession With The Devil

Matt Frei reports from the front-line in a nation where modernisation has done nothing to eradicate superstition Rome A FRIEND of mine had told me that if I really wanted to get......

Mind Your Language

`IT WOULD never do for your argu- ments to profess to be irrefragable,' wrote Cardinal Newman to Wilfrid Ward. No, indeed, but how do your pro- nounce irrefragable? And how......