28 MAY 1988, page 18

Murderous Charm

Geoffrey Wheatcroft explains why the intellectuals of Philby's generation admired Stalin so much 'CHARM is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp......

The Arbor Tree

Roy Kerridge joins the mysterious celebrations at Aston-on-Clun IT was Geoffrey Messer, the strange tree artist of the Welsh borders, who first told me of the Arbor Tree at......