The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.

Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.

Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.

Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.

Aspects of life here civility, courtesy, coziness have always bound Britons to their country . . . They are part of the British myth, along with lovely countryside, dogs and horses, rose gardens, the Armada, the Battle of Britain.

The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.

Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.