19 MAY 1990, page 11

Hanging Guardian Of Babylon

John Simpson leaves Baghdad a wiser man, but minus all his film THEY seem to be thinking of turning the Hanging Gardens of Babylon into a recrea- tion area. They might as well;......

The Jews, Again

As the Soviet empire breaks up, anti-semitism is consequences of strongly felt national pride IT IS the fate of empires that when, finally, thaw sets in, nasty weeds spring back......