16 NOVEMBER 1996, page 19

A World For Napoleon

Alistair Home, author of the latest book about him, speculates as to what he would make of our modem age IN LESS than 20 years we shall be cele- brating the 200th anniversary of......

Wafic? What About Basil?

Simon Sebag Montefiore wonders why Oxford rejects Mr Said, when it still has a Chair endowed by the original Merchant of Death THIS IS a cautionary tale of two secretive,......