15 SEPTEMBER 1990, page 25

The Crofter's Tale

William Dalrymple travels to the Hebrides in search of second sight STROND lies exposed on the long, grey, barren coastline of southern Harris, in the Outer Hebrides. It isn't......

If Symptoms

persist... I'M beginning to wonder whether I still speak modern English, or whether, approaching middle age, the language of my youth and education has become an archaic and......