23 JANUARY 1999, page 12

The Prime Minister Most In The Middle

Sion Simon explains the real significance of Mr Blair's lecture on class, but doesn't approve of all of it WHILE my children were having breakfast this morning, I found myself......

Mind Your Language

`ONE for you here,' my husband said, tossing a copy of The Spectator to my side of the kitchen table in a conversa- tional non-verbal marker that is becom- ing annoyingly......