23 NOVEMBER 1996, page 18

Moors The Pity

Simon Sebag Montefiore goes in search of his exotic relations and finds them in the city where Orson Welles filmed Othello AFTER two lost centuries, there is no bet- ter place......

Mind Your Language

I WAS making some scones (sultana) and looking at what my licence quaintly calls the television receiving equipment, which was turned on and presenting a programme on — well,......