10 AUGUST 1996, page 15

Uncompetitive Labour

Nicholas Farrell says that, instead of blaming a lack of state spending, Mr Blair should look nearer home to explain our Olympic showing TONY BLAIR'S reaction to Britain's soli-......

Mind Your Language

I WAS thinking of the poor Queen aboard Britannia, bound for Scotland for the last time, with a box of summer reading chosen by her advisers — lain Banks and such horrors......