13 NOVEMBER 2004, page 20

The Strongman Of Baghdad

Andrew Gilligan on the murky past of Iyad Allawi, who this week cleared the way for the attack on Fallujah T he first recorded political act of lyad Allawi — now the interim......

Mind Your Language

In Bevis Hillier's fat final volume of his biography of Betjeman, he quotes a chrestomathy of book reviewers' clichés taken from a letter to The Spectator by Jocelyn Brooke,......