30 DECEMBER 1995, page 17

Lenin Without The Tears

Anne McElvoy says we romanticise Russia's workers by brain; they're gentle bores who've now voted communist Moscow THERE WERE no doubts at Pravda about the significance of the......

Mind Your Language

IT IS FUNNY what they say on the wireless and television. I suppose there are two causes, which come from oppo- site directions. One is cliché, or formu- laic expression — as in......