23 OCTOBER 1993, page 11

Once An Empire, Now An Embarrassment

Politicians at Westminster seem to think the Commonwealth is now of little political or IT WAS a perfect Central African after- noon. Vast white clouds were building up above......

A Race About Race

Philip Gourevitch on the new levels of hypocrisy being plumbed by would-be mayors of New York New York AS New York's mayoral campaign began heating up a few weeks ago, a joke......

Mind Your Language

I ACTUALLY learnt something this week. I had been to a wedding where my husband was getting increasingly restive next to me on the bench as he detected each updating of the......