23 FEBRUARY 1985, page 11

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......

Yankees Of The South

Simon Blow Middleburg, Virginia T he South of the United States begins, we are told, at the Mason-Dixon line. Mr Mason and Mr Dixon were two 18th- century Englishmen who laid......