14 DECEMBER 1991, page 13

The Last Thatcherite Summit

John Simpson sees Maastricht as the end of a tired old era Maastricht I LOOKED around my hotel room. It was cold and poorly furnished, and the curtains were so thin the......

Spectator In The Kremlin

Stephen Handelman draws a veil over the career of Mikhail Gorbachev Moscow IT IS TIME to write Mikhail Gorbachev's political obituary: his closest aides are already supplying......

One Hundred Years Ago

THE AMERICANS, we suspect, are Making up their minds to check immi- gration if they can. An acute observer on the spot prophesied this change of feeling in our columns twenty......