Quentin Letts

Talk like an Egyptian

How to become an expert in time for your dinner party

issue 05 February 2011

Few of us understand what is going on at the dusty end of the Med. There may be a few chinstrokers who cup, in their wizened palms, a concise comprehension of the Cairo crisis — see pages 14 to 18 — but the rest of us struggle for something to say.

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