3 MAY 1997, page 55

High Life

Misplaced power Taki B oth Plato and Aristotle thought very little of democracy. And the Ancient Greeks, in their infinite wisdom, practised it selectively. In The Republic,......

Low Life

Hooked on baguettes Jeffrey Bernard L ast week I went to a restaurant, new to me and extremely good and with a very pleasant atmosphere, called Maison Novel- li at Clerkenwell......