But anyone venturing into the former USSR can expect every rogue in the East to devise scams for separating travellers from their cash. If the experience of the Yugoslav dinar – destroyed by hyperinflation, but even today being palmed off on the unsuspecting tourists tempted to deal on the currency black markets – is anything [...]

Of Humphrey Jennings’s wartime films, Lindsay Anderson wrote in the early Fifties that “They will speak for us to posterity, saying: `This is what it was like. So it is not surprising that the most powerful images of this country date from the Second World War. The notions of duty, civic responsibility and restraint that [...]

My friend Billy Arjan Singh, sounding unusually animated, reported that the DNA test done on the tiger hairs showed, with more than 90 per cent certainty, the presence of Siberian genes. Open daily 10am-5pm (later in summer): adults pounds 3,20, children pounds l.90, OAPs pounds 2.90. Marine Aquarium & Cobb History is a charming small [...]

Expenditure on advertising has risen by 87 per cent over the past four years and relaxation in the rules governing advertising has meant campaigns can target consumers other than the elderly, the parents of growing children and pregnant or breastfeeding mothers. Grocery retailers are more enthusiastic about supplements than chemists, according to Mintel. Between 1994 [...]

His mission is to probe the much mocked but little explained “secrets” of the “craft”. All those weird symbols – the compasses and aprons, the squares and gavels – all those rituals of initiation, all those hierarchies of office and uniforms (the brethren of the first, second and third degree): what do they mean?
To grasp [...]

Of course it’s sexy.” She also points to the Mr Darcy effect; in her eyes, mean and moody also draws audiences in. But, ironically, by experimenting with new things, it makes audiences all the more interested in going back and seeing where it started and what it’s all about.”But forget the sell-out world tours of [...]

It follows a ruling on 22 May 1995 in which the Cayman Islands courts found that Mr Pharaon “was found to have participated in a conspiracy to conceal ICIC’s ownership of oil interests held by the Attock Oil Company”.Mr Pharaon has four criminal indictments against him in the US and has also been fined a [...]

He is criticised for agreeing to take his children to church on the Sunday morning. Had she not been coldly cut loose by the Royal Family and forced into divorce, runs this overstretched chain of causality, the accident would never have happened. He is blamed, somehow, for bringing about Diana’s death, as if he alone [...]

After a month of endless rows, Mr Kohl entered the sanctum demonstratively hugging his turbulent Finance Minister, Theo Waigel, who had brought the government to the brink of collapse by suggesting that its members had run out of steam.
On the Chancellor’s other side walked Edmund Stoiber, the Bavarian Prime Minister, who seems determined to sink [...]

People who reported seeing a “vision” of Diana, Princess of Wales in a portrait of King Charles I in St James’s Palace were exhibiting a classic symptom of pathological mourning, psychologists say. Among the crowds queuing to sign the books of condolence on Wednesday, a number emerged convinced that they had seen Diana’s face in [...]