4 MARCH 1995, page 16

Full Of Eastern Menace

Martin Vander Weyer ran the Far Eastern operation of one of Barings' rivals. He finds the cause of the bank's collapse all too believable I REMEMBER a warm Sunday afternoon at......

Mind Your Language

THE SPECTATOR is upbraided by a reader from Hampstead (though she can't help that) for using the word ful- some to mean 'enthusiastic, warm, wholehearted', whereas in her book......