22 MAY 1993, page 13

`this Is Becoming Most Discourteous'

Robert Cottrell discovers a goldmine of indiscretions in the diaries of M Jacques Attali, Mitterrand's former confidant Paris Brezhnev is dying. The next general-secre- tary of......

One Hundred Years Ago

To all appearance, the drought has bro- ken up. In the South of England it has been one of the longest on record, hav- ing lasted some seventy-eight days, i.e., two months and a......