22 JANUARY 1994, page 13

The Sharp Edge Of Diplomacy

Simon Winchester reports from a forgotten war zone where tempers are fraying again Panmunjom, South Korea IT CAN HARDLY be a barrel of laughs living right on the border between......

The Indispensable Afrikaner

Fergal Keane argues that lazy and selective reporting conceals the truth about white South Africans Eastern Transvaal ATTIE'S fat, sweating body barely squeezed into the khaki......

Mind Your Language

I BECAME entangled in the under- world of confidence tricksters recently and it is all The Spectator's fault. I had caught sight of the word phoney on the front cover (1......