20 NOVEMBER 1999, page 14

A Survivor

writes.. . WE all know or should know that it is fatal to boast. For some time I have been saying that my family has written more books than any other, but we are now told that......

Ermine Skulduggery

Peter Oborne observes that many of the surviving hereditaries, like the life peers, are placemen THE Queen's Speech from the throne of the House of Lords was a gloomy and......