22 FEBRUARY 1986, page 18

Surrealist Folly

Geraldine Norman on the difficulty of saving Edward James's house IT'S five miles from the crenellated Edwardian towers of West Dean to Monk- ton, the little retreat that......

The Deputy Prime Minister

Insiders: a profile of Sir Robert Armstrong, a civil servant more discreet than astute THERE are periods when almost every Government minister comes under con- siderable nervous......