Spectator articles from September 2003

Spectator archives from September 2003

Portrait of the week.
September 6, 2003... Mr Alastair Campbell confirmed that he was to resign as the Prime Minister's director of communications and strategy. He is to be succeeded, at least in the first half of the title, by Mr David Hill, but there is to be a general musical-chairs...

Kelly's case for war.
September 6, 2003... The most revealing evidence to the Hutton inquiry so far has been provided not by Alastair Campbell, Andrew Gilligan or Geoff Hoon but by David Kelly's sister, Sarah Pape. In the run-up to war, she told the inquiry on Monday, she had discussed...

Diary.
September 6, 2003... You will expect me to bore you about my holiday in France, where, like Joan Collins, we found things hideously expensive compared with a year ago. When the credit-card bill arrives, I shall console myself that the euro is now heading south, and...

Brown lurks as Blair and Duncan Smith sink together.(Politics)
September 6, 2003... There has been no more abject moment in the Blair premiership than last Tuesday afternoon's capitulation to the trade unions. The grandees of the movement, led by the new TUC general secretary Brendan Barber, were ushered with some deference...

Forza Berlusconi! The embattled Italian Prime Minister summoned Boris Johnson and Nicholas Farrell to his Sardinian retreat, and accorded them an insight into his success.(Interview)
September 6, 2003... It is twilight in Sardinia. The sun has vanished behind the beetling crags. The crickets have momentarily stopped. The machine-gun-toting guards face out into the maquis of myrtle and olive, and the richest man in Europe is gripping me by the...

The new imperial vision of Silvio Berlusconi.
September 6, 2003... The Spectator began by asking Berlusconi whether he has mended fences with Chancellor Schroder, after he likened the German Social Democrat MEP, Martin Schulz, to a Nazi camp commandant? It was I who was offended, my government and my...

Catch me if you can: Neil Barnett says that The Hague's attempt to track down Radovan Karadzic has been inept and counterproductive.
September 6, 2003... Will Osama and Saddam ever be found? If they fare as well as the Bosnian Serb mass murderers Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic, perhaps not. In July the desperate duo celebrated eight years on the run front indictments by The Hague Tribunal,...

The end of the affair: Paul Michael Wihbey predicts a total collapse of the long-standing relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia.
September 6, 2003... America is disengaging from Saudi Arabia. To many observers this seems shocking, to others it is unthinkable, but all the evidence points to a dramatic change in relations. A few weeks ago, the last of America's bases, Prince Sultan Air Base,...

Ancient & modern.
September 6, 2003... The pop singer Sir Mick Jagger thinks that the Greek god whom he most resembles is Dionysus. Oh dear! One wonders if Dionysus will be pleased when he discovers that the national treasure on earth whose voice keeps giving up (bless) has likened...

Biological warfare: Douglas Davis reveals Arafat's plan to achieve a single Palestinian state by encouraging his people to breed.
September 6, 2003... The moment has come for the long queue of diplomatic high-wire artists to bite the bullet: there is no immediate prospect of peace between Israel and the Palestinians. No matter how much Tony Blair huffs and Jack Straw puffs, the painful...

Cat flap: Andrew Gimson on why his neighbours reported him to the Cats Protection League.
September 6, 2003... We got word that our house in London was infested with fleas as we drove north on holiday in glorious weather through the borders into Scotland. Sid, who very kindly and conscientiously looks after our cats while we are away, sent a series of...

Mind your language.
September 6, 2003... I can't say that I care for the outbreak of 'Mumbai' that has been pouring from the telly since those terrible bombs in Bombay. Why should we suddenly call it Mumbai any more than we should now call Burma Myanmar? Twenty years ago there was a...

The answer to being too fat is utter self-delusion.(Thought For The Day)
September 6, 2003... I caught sight of some fat, pompous ass haranguing a bunch of attractive women at a party the other night. He was on the far side of the room, clutching a poncy cocktail the colour of a 1970s duvet cover and declaiming God knows what to these...

Alastair Campbell's redtop values have contaminated our politics.(Media Studies)
September 6, 2003... When I learnt of Dr Kelly's suicide, my first thought was that he had been fatally drawn into Alastair Campbell's world. It is what many people felt. It was a reasonable assumption that Mr Campbell or his office or someone responsible to the...

Har ar mit rad till Svenska folket: rosta nej, rosta ofta.(City And Suburban)
September 6, 2003... This is my message to the people of Sweden: Vote No, vote often. As you can see, I have burst into Swedish to put it across, and it seems to he working. Next weekend, in a referendum, the Swedes will have the chance to decide whether their...

The real resigning matter.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
September 6, 2003... From Frederick Forsyth Sir: The Hutton inquiry is predictably bogged down in a futile quagmire of who said what, to whom, on whose authority, who knew about it and, frankly, who cares. But Hutton diverts attention from the question that...

Pogroms and pipedreams.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
September 6, 2003... From Graham Wheeler Sir: Adrian Hilton's article ('Render unto the Pope... ', 30 August) is funny without being vulgar. As a practising Catholic, my response to it can be encapsulated in two words: 'If only!' In Germany during the...

Very unlike my Wales.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
September 6, 2003... From Mona Roberts Sir: I grew up in the Amlwch of the 1940s/50s that David Lovibond seemed to despise so much ('Weep for Wales', 16 August). These are some of the reasons he gives: Amlwch's retailers only opened if and when they felt like...

Ever a virgin?(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
September 6, 2003... From Gordon Villars Sir: How disconcerting to see such an intelligent writer as Christopher Howse defending the incurably mediaeval, profoundly irrational and completely unscriptural doctrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary...

No oil, no bin Laden.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
September 6, 2003... From Simon Courtauld Sir: As an addendum to your excellent editorial (30 August) on the qualities of Sir Wilfred Thesiger and his hatred of the modern world, it is relevant to repeat what he said to me at the time of the US invasion of...

Subject to no one.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
September 6, 2003... From Mike Block Sir: I spluttered my vodka over the last page of The Spectator the other night as I read Michael Henderson's piece (Sport, 23 August) from New York: The Queen, who is one of the few British subjects [sic] to have visited...

My lovely Auld Reekie.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
September 6, 2003... From Martin Hogg Sir: As a resident of Edinburgh, I must apologise to Lloyd Evans (Arts, 23 August) for his dreadful experience during his recent visit to my parochial and grey town. As a reader of the national press. I am of course aware...

Why the Loch Ness monster decided to stay on the bottom.(And Another Thing)
September 6, 2003... In summer, throughout Scotland, elderly men, usually with beards and in Highland dress, stand around with their bagpipes waiting for tourists to pay them to play. I recall one who stood on the shore of Loch Ness, at Castle Urquhart, and the...

How a balloon flight over the Pyrenees cured my mother's fear of flying.(Another Voice)
September 6, 2003... What, for her 77th birthday, do you give a woman who has everything? I do not mean that my mother is rich or lives in luxury, but that though we, her six children, have all our lives been the recipients of birthday gifts lovingly chosen by...

Treasures buried in the mud.(Yellow Dog)(Book Review)
September 6, 2003... YELLOW DOG by Martin Amis Cape, 16.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 340 ISBN 0224050613 Though not as bad as had been suggested before the absurdly tightly guarded publication, Yellow Dog is certainly a disappointment which does little to amend...

Don't let the facts spoil a good story.(True Crime)(Book Review)
September 6, 2003... TRUE CRIME by Jake Arnott Sceptre, 10.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 344, ISBN 0340818565 Jake Arnott tells a good story, and when he gets on with it his books tick along nicely. The plotting in True Crime is well handled, and the comings and...

The worst class of elite.(Darkness At Dawn: The Rise Of The Russian Criminal State)(Book Review)
September 6, 2003... DARKNESS AT DAWN: THE RISE OF THE RUSSIAN CRIMINAL STATE by David Satter Yale, 22.50 [pounds sterling], pp. 314, ISBN 0300098928 The thesis for which this book submits evidence is that in the 10 years following the collapse of the Soviet...

The better half of mathematics.(Isaac Newton)(Book Review)
September 6, 2003... ISAAC NEWTON by James Gleick Fourth Estate, 15 [pounds sterling], pp. 289, ISBN 0007163177 Isaac Newton showed no signs of being a brilliant child, only an odd one. Reading books when he should have been tending sheep, fond of small...

Oh, my Papa!(Six)(Book Review)
September 6, 2003... SIX by Jim Crace Penguin, 16.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 356, ISBN 0670881163 Felix ('Lix') Dern is under a curse. 'Every woman he dares to sleep with bears his child.' There are five already and Jim Crace's new novel opens with number six...

Keeping an eye on the generals.(John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life)(Book Review)
September 6, 2003... JOHN F. KENNEDY: AN UNFINISHED LIFE, 1917-1963 by Robert Dallek Allen Lane, 25 [pounds sterling], pp. 838, ISBN 0713997370 For once a bookseller's puff is accurate. 'Hands down the best biography of JFK,' clamours the dust-jacket, and it is...

Tragedy and comedy in Kosovo.(The Internationals)(Book Review)
September 6, 2003... THE INTERNATIONALS by Sarah May Chatto, 10 [pounds sterling], pp. 217, ISBN 0701172827 Extraordinary public events have a power to locate us in the mundane minutiae of our everyday lives. I have an uncomfortably vivid recollection of the...

Sex, please, we're British.(Politics)(Book Review)
September 6, 2003... POLITICS by Adam Thirlwell Cape, 12.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 279, ISBN 0224071041 Appropriately for a book entitled Politics, Adam Thirlwell's first novel--another of Granta's previously unpublished Best Young British Novelists--is...

The puzzle of Rebus.(A Question Of Blood)(Book Review)
September 6, 2003... A QUESTION OF BLOOD by Ian Rankin Orion, 17.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 360, ISBN 0752851101 Arguably no Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott has had the commercial and critical success that Ian Rankin now enjoys. He may even be said to...

Embarras de richesses.(Great Houses of Europe)(Historic Family Homes And Gardens From The Air)(Book Review)
September 6, 2003... GREAT HOUSES OF EUROPE by Marcus Binney Aurum, 40 [pounds sterling], pp. 192, ISBN 1854108492 HISTORIC FAMILY HOMES AND GARDENS FROM THE AIR Norman Hudroa & Co, 25 [pounds sterling], pp. 189. ISBN 095314268X Could the bottom have...

Joining the wild party.(The Taste Of Dreams)(Book Review)
September 6, 2003... THE TASTE OF DREAMS by Vanora Bennett Review, 14.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 276, ISBN 0755300637 From time to time, a certain champagne house which suffers from an association with Jeffrey Archer place advertisements in this magazine, in...

Method in his madness.(Harvard And The Unabomber: The Education Of An American Terrorist)(Book Review)
September 6, 2003... HARVARD AND THE UNABOMBER: THE EDUCATION OF AN AMERICAN TERRORIST by Alston Chase Norton, 20.95 [pounds sterling], pp. 432, ISBN 0930020029 Theodore Kaczynski, the American Unabomber--so-called because he appeared at one point to...

The primrose path.(Turning Towards The Sun)(Book Review)
September 6, 2003... TURNED TOWARDS THE SUN by Michael Burn Michael Russell, 20 [pounds sterling], pp. 320, ISBN 0859552802 Here we find several autobiographies, all within a single cover and by the same author. Michael Burn (born 1912) has lived many lives and...

The dark side of la dolce vita.(The Montesi Scandal: The Death of Wilma Montesi And The Birth Of The Paparazzi In Fellini's Rome)(Book Review)
September 6, 2003... THE MONTESI SCANDAL: THE DEATH OF WILMA MONTESI AND THE BIRTH OF THE PAPARAZZI IN FELLINI'S ROME by Karen Pinkus University of Chicago Press, 16.49 [pounds sterling], pp. 184, ISBN 0226668487 It is hard, 50 years after the event, to see...

Winner takes all.(Amarillo Slim In A World Full Of Fat People: The Memoirs Of The Greatest Gambler Who Ever Lived)(Book Review)
September 6, 2003... AMARILLO SLIM IN A WORLD FULL of FAT PEOPLE: THE MEMOIRS OF THE GREATEST GAMBLER WHO EVER LIVED by T. A. 'Amarillo Slim' Preston with Greg Dinkin Yellow Jersey, 72 [pounds sterling], pp. 272, ISBN 0224071017 In The Biggest Game in Town,...

The strange potency of bad music: Marcus Berkmann investigates the strong feelings invoked by atrocious cover-versions.(Arts)
September 6, 2003... A lesson is learnt. Good music, as we hear it, tends to be ours and ours alone. But bad music is everyone's: we all suffer together. Last month I related the harrowing tale of a recent family holiday in St Ives, where my girlfriend and I, while...

Double-edged spirit of the age.
September 6, 2003... Elizabeth National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, until 14 September The England of the first Elizabeth was expansive. It was a time of adventure and exploration, of richness in language and derring-do. It was the age of Sir Walter Ralegh,...

Great interpretations.(Die Winterreise at the Edinburgh Festival)(Opera Review)
September 6, 2003... Die Winterreise Edinburgh Festival Apart from the two cycles of The Ring, all the opera in this year's Edinburgh Festival was performed in concert, with some of the singers taking the opportunity to get in as much acting as possible;...

French farce.(Le Costume at the Young Vic)(The Taming of the Shrew at The Globe)(Theater Review)
September 6, 2003... Le Costume Young Vic The Taming of the Shrew The Globe Le Costume is a masterpiece directed by Peter Brook. No, I'll rephrase that. Le Costume is directed by Peter Brook and it's not a masterpiece; it's a whimsical and clumsy little...

That's entertainment.(Cymbeline at the Swan Theatre)(Pericles at the Bard on the Beach)(Theater Review)
September 6, 2003... Cymbeline Swan Theatre, Stratford Pericles Bard on the Beach, Vancouver On holiday from the exertions of the 15 or so years that had taken him from the early Histories to Macbeth, the Bard amused himself by putting together in the...

Beautifully arranged.(Gardens)
September 6, 2003... 'The trouble with you garden writers,' said Judith Blacklock, editor of the Flower Arranger Magazine, not unkindly, when I met her at the Chelsea Show, 'is that you don't write sense about flower arranging.' I blushed but did not demur. To be...

Best of Five.(Television)
September 6, 2003... People keep telling me that Channel 5 (or 'Five' as we are supposed to call it) is much improved, being no longer devoted to sport and nude women, and with plenty of serious programmes alongside Shark Attack and Hollywood Sex. So I tried four...

An historic campaign.(Radio)
September 6, 2003... We all know that political spin is nothing new. Previous governments tried to present their policies in an attractive light and the Heath administration actually lied outright over the nature of our membership of the Common Market, as it was...

He really owes me.(The turf)
September 6, 2003... Alastair Campbell, I reckon, owes me 789.30 [pounds sterling]. My oldest friend's ruby-wedding celebrations made it impossible for me to make it to a racetrack last Saturday so I used a saved-up day off to head to Sandown on Friday instead....

The Qatar way.(High life)
September 6, 2003... Gstaad Talk about dumbing down. Here's a moron commenting on Sky following the Greek victory in the women's javelin: 'Oi didn't know Greeks could speak English, not that oi can speak Greek....' Mirela Manjani is an articulate young...

Doctor in the house.(Low life)
September 6, 2003... There is very little in the way of conversation at home. Uncle Jack sometimes appears in the hall to ask someone where he is, what he is doing here, or what time of the year it is. The rest of us communicate so rarely we are rapidly losing the...

Putting on L-plates.(Singular life)
September 6, 2003... It seems a bit odd, learning to drive in one's thirties. Readers will wonder why I have put it off for so long. The answer is that, as Eliza Doolittle thought, it is jolly nice being driven around in the back of a taxi. The expense of the fares...

What a scenario!(Bridge)(Brief Article)
September 6, 2003... PARO RAZA a former member of the Pakistani women's bridge team and a regular at TGR's, has a wonderfully theatrical use of language. 'I made a thunderously bad lead!' she'll exclaim, or, when something unexpected happens during a hand, What a...

Fine specimen.(Chess)
September 6, 2003... Jon Speelman, former world championship semi-finalist, grandmaster, author of many books and chess columnist for the Observer and Independent, has won outright first prize in the Staunton Anniversary tournament at Simpson's-in-the-Strand....

1630: red actors.(Crossword)
September 6, 2003... The unclued lights (individually of two words, or paired with two doing double duty) are of a kind. ACROSS 4 Where charity begins at home (9, hyphened) 11 Undergo change during extempore action (5) 15 Cormorant first seen by...

Spectator Wine Club.
September 6, 2003... It's always a huge pleasure to go to Southwold, that charming, lively yet soothing Suffolk seaside resort--Frinton without the frumpiness. There's a fine intact pier, and at the Crown an excellent restaurant. The colourful but hardly spacious...

Gripping times.(Spectator Sport)(Obituary)
September 6, 2003... If you die at the age of 86, and your admirers in a career spanning four decades include the Queen, Margaret Thatcher and Frank Sinatra, it is fair to say you have been noticed. Yet when Kent Walton passed away last week, anybody under the age...

Dear Mary.(Your Problems Solved)
September 6, 2003... Q. Our 15-year-old daughter was invited as a guest to accompany a schoolfriend on holiday with her friend's father and stepmother (whom we have not met) as the elder sister did not wish to go. In a telephone conversation to discuss possible...

Portrait of the week.
September 13, 2003... Britain sent about 1,400 more troops to Iraq, the 2nd Battalion Light Infantry and the 1st Battalion Royal Green Jackets, to supplement its force of 10,000. Another 1,200 may be sent too. A man died during a clash between two factions of Iraqi...

Rape and justice.
September 13, 2003... Justice should not only be done, but be seen to be done, and therefore secrecy in trial proceedings is to be countenanced only when circumstances genuinely demand it. However, justice also requires that people should not be punished for what...

Diary.
September 13, 2003... Last week The Spectator interviewed Silvio Berlusconi, and there followed a political furore that dominated the Italian news for--well, at least a couple of days. The cause of the crisis was the opinion of Italy's 57th Italian postwar prime...

We might as well admit it: there are times when we are frightened of Islam.(Politics)(Editorial)
September 13, 2003... Since the editor is filling this page with its former occupants, I naturally responded to his invitation by looking back to the days 20 years ago when I filled this hole. In most respects, the subject matter was the same--why doesn't the health...

The Spectator's notes.
September 13, 2003... With the Hutton inquiry now temporarily in abeyance, and Michael Meacher taking off the media heat by realigning himself, politically, with David Icke, how are the embattled understrappers in the communications department of the Ministry of...

A sad case of schadenfreude: Andrew Gimson says Gerhard Schroder has unleashed and exploited his country's latent anti-Americanism, long suppressed by postwar German leaders.
September 13, 2003... Last Sunday I attended a very odd and unpleasant meeting at the Tempodrom in Berlin. The several hundred people who were present believe the American government is to blame for the attack on the World Trade Center, which it either carried out...

Job of the week.
September 13, 2003... Strategic Energy and Sustainability Manager, Haringey Council Salary: 33,642 [pounds sterling] to 35,928 [pounds sterling] Reporting to the Head of Strategic Sourcing, your objective will be to ensure that sustainability is recognised as a...

Chirac and the son of Nippon: Philip Delves Broughton ponders the silence of the French media in the face of revelations that the last three presidents have had second families.
September 13, 2003... Paris Within the next few months, Jacques Chirac's illegitimate son will turn 18 and the French press will face a dilemma. Do they celebrate his majority on the front page of Paris Match? Or do they keep it as hush-hush as they have in the...

Madonna of the Pseuds: Tom Utley was suddenly conscious that he admired neither the work of Leonardo nor many other acknowledged masterpieces.
September 13, 2003... Leonardo's 'Madonna of the Yarnwinder', stolen the other day from the Duke of Buccleuch, is the painting that changed my view of civilisation. I know it quite well, because one of my sisters-in-law used to live just up the road from Drumlanrig...

Ancient & modern.
September 13, 2003... The death of Dr David Kelly has raised questions about justifications for suicide. The ancient Greeks were equally interested in the issue. Greeks, like Romans, tended to take the view that humans were, for the most part, in full control...

I was 12, she was 13: Rod Liddle on government plans to outlaw the harmless fumblings of teenagers.
September 13, 2003... According to a survey reported last weekend in the Independent on Sunday, almost all homosexuals are barking mad. I am using the politically correct term 'barking mad' so as not to incur the wrath of the mental-health pressure groups, all of...

Mind your language.
September 13, 2003... Many people think a runcible spoon is a sort of pickle-fork with a serrated edge. If that is what they call it, then that is the word for it, but it is not the same word that Edward Lear used when he wrote of a runcible spoon in 1871. He also...

I prefer the tub of lard: Leo McKinstry attacks the modern obsession with party loyalty and says that Roy Hattersley is a prime offender.
September 13, 2003... Just after David Hill's appointment as the new Downing Street press chief, I wrote a profile of him for the Daily Mail. In this article, I revealed that Hill was a superb amateur rock vocalist, who had not only sung in several major venues...

The Blairs.
September 13, 2003... Burying bad news

Banned wagon: global: a weekly survey of world restrictions on freedom and free trade.(Brief Article)
September 13, 2003... In spite of our late and grotty trains, it comes as a relief to return to work in Britain. A fortnight in France reveals a country that has been greatly affected by the obligatory 35-hour week since I last took the family on holiday there in...

The Young Fogey: an elegy: Harry Mount mourns the extinction of young men who wore four-piece tweed suits, including 'westkits', and loved the old Prayer Book.
September 13, 2003... They're playing rap music in the jewellery department at Christie's South Kensington. In T.M. Lewin, the Jermyn Street shirtmakers, you can dip into a fridge by the cufflinks counter and have a frozen mini-Mars while you are leafing through the...

Second opinion.
September 13, 2003... Why the British want to reproduce themselves is a question which is as puzzling in its own way as that of the origin of life. Their existence is so wretched, so utterly lacking in anything reasonably resembling a purpose, so devoid of those...

How we trained al-Qa'eda: Brendan O'Neill says the Bosnian war taught Islamic terrorists to operate abroad.
September 13, 2003... For all the millions of words written about al-Qa'eda since the 9/11 attacks two years ago, one phenomenon is consistently overlooked--the role of the Bosnian war in transforming the mujahedin of the 1980s into the roving Islamic terrorists of...

The price war is over, and it is time to ask who won.(Media Studies)
September 13, 2003... Last Saturday the Times raised its cover price to 90 pence, which is what the Daily Telegraph sells for on that day. On Monday it went up to 50 pence, pricing the paper at only 5 pence less than the Guardian and Telegraph. Thus ends the price...

The brothers plead their case to Mr Hoaxem and the gentleman in Downing Street.(City And Suburban)
September 13, 2003... The gentleman in Downing Street had to receive delegations, but loathed them. It was just like sham marching, he said--an immense dust, and no progress: 'To listen to their views! As if I did not know what their views were before they stated...

Storm in a Martini glass.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
September 13, 2003... From Giuseppe Mascoli Sir: Boris Johnson's and Nicholas Farrell's article in The Spectator ('Forza Berlusconi!', 6 September) has created turmoil in Italy. In particular, Berlusconi's claims that the judges are 'mad' and that to be one...

Dividing Israel.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
September 13, 2003... From Deborah Maccoby Sir: Douglas Davis writes that the Palestinian leadership has a 'phased plan' which 'stipulates that whatever territory Israel surrenders will be used as a platform for further territorial gains until the "complete...

Still missing.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
September 13, 2003... From Brian Christley Sir: The fact that we have been unable to find war criminals in Kosovo, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq, or any WMD ('Catch me if you can', 6 September), shouldn't come as a surprise, following our failure to find Lord...

Language reformation.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
September 13, 2003... From Dr David Dendy Sir: Noel Gale concentrates too much on Henry and not enough on his successors (Letters, 6 September). Under Edward, Elizabeth and James I/VI, the Anglican Church became a well-favoured and well-founded one, which it...

Can't get the staff.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
September 13, 2003... From Flt Lt Gavin Outteridge RAF Sir: As an Oxford graduate and RAF officer with substantial experience, if not of cleaners, certainly of scouts and batting staff, I must take issue with Catherine Maskell's upsetting article ('Class...

Blunt warning.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
September 13, 2003... From Mr Alexander Nekrassov Sir: Your political editor Peter Oborne was one of the passionate critics of the Conservative MP Crispin Blunt, who challenged the leadership of Iain Duncan Smith immediately after the local election in May of...

Quick to emote.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
September 13, 2003... From Denis Vaughan Sir: Peter Hughes's brilliant summary of emotion as organic distinguished from sentiment as processed (Letters, 30 August) could be expanded a little. Professor Manfred Clynes demonstrated the speeds at which neural...