18 NOVEMBER 2000, page 60

The Emperor And The Robber Barons

Simon Sebag Montefiore MIDNIGHT DIARIES by Boris Yeltsin Weidenfeld, £20, pp. 398 B oris Yeltsin is the leader who ruled Russia between 1991 and 2000 with the dis- tant caprice......

How To Beat The Class System

Helen Osborne CLASS ACT by Lynda Lee-Potter Metro, £.17.99, pp. 250 T he groom at least had made some effort,' wrote Lynda Lee-Potter in her Daily Mail column after the paper......