15 FEBRUARY 1992, page 24

Here Is Tomorrow's News

Jane Thynne watches the BBC and ITV prepare for the general election 'WE'VE LOST Malcolm Rifkind. What the hell's happened to Malcolm Rifkind?' David Dimbleby's familiar......

If Symptoms Persist. . .

I'VE NOTICED recently that in publica- tions by pusillanimous American aca- demics the pronoun he, when used to refer to a person of either sex, has been replaced by she: an......