23 OCTOBER 1999, page 12

The Mother Of All Battles

Kim Fletcher reports from the front line of the war between women IT took time for us to learn it, but dinner- party conversation was not so very hard. The fatal thing was to......

Mind Your Language

A nice-sounding Italian called Dr Augusto Odello, of Turin, writes to make an 'attentive and long thought- out reply', he says, to my remarks on his short pamphlet Trentatre vs......