19 SEPTEMBER 1998, page 15

England Don't Arise!

UNLESS some latter-day Edward Gibbon gets in quickly with the Decline and Fall of the British Empire it will be time for him to turn his mind to a much more topical theme: the......

Mind Your Language

IN ALL the verbiage swelling in waves over us during the Clinton hoo-ha I was interested by a sentence from Charles Wheeler, the suave correspon- dent who now acts as an elder......