27 MAY 2006, page 28

In Iraq, Timetables Are Completely Meaningless

As Bush and Blair plan withdrawal, Stryker McGuire talks to senior British officers on the ground engaged in the long, hard job of training Iraqi soldiers Baghdad T he sun has......

Mind Your Language

Are we now more ignorant than Bertie Wooster? Orwell, in his essay defending P.G. Wodehouse, noted that when ‘he describes somebody as heaving “the kind of sigh that Prometheus......