25 MARCH 1995, page 17

Taking The Family Name In Vain

Edward Acton, great-grandson of the historian, denounces the hijacking of the first Lord Acton by the American New Right FOLLOWING the trade of a famed ances- tor is a mixed......

Mind Your Language

SABBATICALS SEEM to be all the rage these days. The disappearing comedian, Stephen Fry, said he needed one; the former Treasurer of the Con- servative Party, Lord McAlpine, said......