23 FEBRUARY 1985, page 10

Sri Lankan Imprisonment

Nicholas Coleridge C ince I have never been inside a British ■ ...) jail, it is difficult to draw comparisons with a Sri Lankan one. But for hilarious bedlam I do not suppose......

The Communist Collapse

Sam White Paris T he 25th Congress of the French Com- munist Party, which at one time prom- ised to be a rumbustious affair; has in fact passed off peaceably enough, with the......