30 MARCH 2002, page 20

What I Did In The War

Simon Courtauld was editing The Spectator when Galtieri invaded the Falklands. Here he describes his role in the destiny of the nation I REMEMBER quite clearly what I was doing......

Mind Your Language

WHY, asks David Taylor of Allington, Lincolnshire, does cleave mean both 'to split' and 'to stick together'? Why, soon found myself asking, do we say cleft stick but cloven......