8 DECEMBER 2001, page 22

The Energy For Battle

Bruce Anderson reports on the latest scientific moves to reduce the West's dangerous dependence on Arab oil IT was a dinner-party conversation, and a mood of eupeptic pessimism......

Banned Wagon

A weekly survey of the things our rulers want to prohibit BEWARE your backgammon set: the time has come for it to join your fur slippers and ivory-handled knives in the deep......