13 OCTOBER 1984, page 12

Inner Emigration

Timothy Garton Ash T hey call it 'simultaneous theatre'. Two quite different scenes are acted out on the same stage at the same time. It's the a vant-garde speciality of the......

One Hundred Years Ago

The news of the week from Egypt is bad. General Gordon, with four steam- ers, carried out his threat of burning Berber, shelling the place till its defen- ders ran away. He did......