15 DECEMBER 1984, page 10

Abyssinian Johnson

Richard West Lichfield, Staffs A visit to Samuel Johnson's birthplace serves to remind that he talked good sense, and about the same topics that we consider modern. He was right......

The Moral High Ground

Christopher Hitchens Washington I Vs brass monkey weather on Mas- sachusetts Avenue, especially on that posh but exposed section which features the embassies of Britain, Brazil......

One Hundred Years Ago

It is one hundred years ago today since Samuel Johnson died. Since that time the world has moved with a rapid- ity of which he could not even have dreamed. It may be almost......