2 JANUARY 1988, page 18

Comedy Of Manners

Michael Trend meets the man from the polite society I HAVE now spent just on a year with The Spectator, keeping from time to time what is for me largely new company — the hard......

One Hundred Years Ago

MR Gladstone left Hawarden for the Continent on Monday, and was re- ceived with great enthusiasm at various places on his route; but at Dover, on Tuesday, he was hooted and......