4 APRIL 1998, page 12

All The Ex-prime Minister's Men

Peter Oborne on the small group of younger Tory front-benchers who spend time with Lady Thatcher — and why LAST WEEKEND William Hague osten- tatiously announced his intention to......

Mind Your Language

IT BEING unseasonably warm on Sun- day, I had tea in the garden. A bird, commendably busy fetching bits of twig for a nest, had just dropped a congealed lump of dead leaf and......