17 JANUARY 1998, page 20

Reading The Asian Auspices

Europe shouldn't be smug about Asia's financial troubles, says Francis Pike. It could meet the same fate I WAS recently commiserating with one of my Asian colleagues who had......

With Uncle Harold At Petworth

Robert Rhodes James recalls dinner with a former prime minister who awaited a call which never came IT WAS one of the great sadnesses of my life that just as I had got to know......