19 AUGUST 1995, page 13

History Is Running Backwards

We secretly approve of ethnic cleansing in Croatia, writes Anne McElvoy, even if we do not admit it to ourselves Zagreb FOUR YEARS ago, in the Serbian enclave of Knin, I came......

Mind Your Language

I HAVEN'T quite finished reading the new Concise Oxford Dictionary but I have found some of its advice on usage sweetly avuncular (or should I say materteral, since the editrix......