31 JULY 2004, page 21

Mind Your Language

M. Jacques Myard, the bouncy French deputy, was talking on the wireless the other day about 'unsecurity . . I am not mocking his English; there was a word unsecure in the 17th......

Simon Hoggart

F or English vintners, 2003 was the annus mirabilis. English wine has been steadily improving for decades now — long since a vigneron in Cognac could tell me, 'Yurr English......