24 JUNE 1995, page 24

Elevating Meanness To A Principle

Anne Applebaum is puzzled by the British antipathy to paying for medical treatment, and wonders at the reason IT IS about a year ago, and I am telling a disapproving friend why......

One Hundred Years Ago

AN EXCELLENT instance of the rebellious feelings of the Irish peas- antry is given in a story now current in Ireland. A man appeared in Kerry, and gave himself out as a......