1 MAY 1993, page 12

Back To The Future

John Simpson on how he saw the signs of the new Russia 15 years ago, but failed to understand them St Petersburg THESE, I reflected, were the new Rus- sians: the carefully......

Mind Your Language

THERE seems to be a breakdown tak- ing place in English at the moment. To be less disapproving, it is a change (or `sea-change', as the cliché-mongers pre- fer). It might be......