14 JANUARY 1995, page 17

Tony Blair's Fear Of Failure

The Labour leader seems to be the one man who is not confident that he will be Britain's next prime minister, says Anne McElvoy THERE WASN'T an awful lot to do of an evening up......

Mind Your Language

`Mummy, is it all right to write alright as one word?' `No and yes, 0 nematode of my con- centration,' I answered, looking up from a muffler I was knitting for Veronica. `Now......