13 MARCH 1993, page 50

Long Life

The angry brigade Nigel Nicolson I only once met Nicholas Ridley, when I was 21 and he was nine. I was staying the weekend at his father's house, Blagdon, in Northumberland, and......

Imperative Cooking: From The Gulf

THE ENGLISH rarely eat in marquees, and then only salmon and strawberries. The Arabs are very keen on tents, huge stripey ones. And they eat everything in them — at once. That......