18 OCTOBER 1986, page 5

The Spectator

WHAT SUMMIT FAILURE? A certain idea of 'failure' has been circling the globe ever since Mr Reagan and Mr Gorbachev parted, sped on its way by such means as Le Monde's first......

To The Wall

THE Queen's visit to the Great Wall of China brings to mind this passage from Boswell's Life of Johnson: '10 April 1778. He talked with an uncommon animation of travelling into......