22 NOVEMBER 1997, page 22

Faults Found In German Machine

Andrew Gimson on a flood of new books arguing that the Bundesrepublik has gone wrong Berlin EAST Germans can remember the exhila- rating days when they threw out Erich Honecker......

Mind Your Language

`ONE of the most agreeable things about our Cathedral library', writes the learned Dr P.R. Newman from York Minister, 'is that it has never been subjected to peri- odic......