15 FEBRUARY 1986, page 16

The Cruel Game Of Spy-swap

Ronald Payne on how the Soviet Union wins in exchanging prisoners 'SPY-SWAP' is a cruel and terrible game devised and executed with ruthless cyn- icism by the Soviet Union.......

A Voyage Round My Colon

Ludovic Kennedy on the surprising pleasure of inspecting one's insides THE consultant and I were looking at an X-ray of my colon. 'Those two white blobs,' he said, 'are polyps.......