The danger in the Government's new economic measures is not that they will fail — as, in the longer run, they are bound to do— but that they will appear to succeed. For again...

The comparative experiences of Brazil and Argentina suggest that, in Latin American countries, at least, rampant hyperinflation can be brought under control only by the exercise...

Just as many of his unfairest and most bitter critics have long denounced Mr Enoch Powell's declared reverence for the constitution and Parliament as a charade, covering darker...

The Spectator F. R. Leavis, who last wrote for The Spectator in 1962 on 'The Two Cultures', marks his eightieth birthday by publishing in next week's issue an important new...

European union Sir: As foretold, prior to the Referendum, by those campaigning against EEC membership, the spectre of close economic and monetary union is now raising its ugly...

Patrick Cosgrave I have never been inclined to take the Strasbourg Assembly (which some benighted souls call a Parliament) very seriously, nor am I normally noted for paying an...

The suggestion from Mr Charles Simeons, formerly Conservative MP for Luton East from 1970 to 1974, that Parliamentary candidates should be drawn from the production ,end of...

A popular theory about interest rates states that any speedup of business activity brings about a greater demand for capital and higher interest rates. Conversely, any slowdown...

Inflation or deflation? That is the question of the day. Harry Browne predicts - a continued upward pressure on the prices of all things, accelerating as time goes on, and...

Edward Heath The present controversies over Labour's attitudes to direct grant schools and public schools has echoes of an older controversy when it was first proposed to admit...

Education without the myths Melmoth Grant There is an enormous need in this country for education on drugs — mostly in the form of telling parents what drugs their children...

Infamous white card Molly Mortimer On the length of the airstrip at Stanley, lies the Falkland Islands' future. An entirely unpublicised, unofficial delegation from the...

Reginald Bevins I understand that my tireless friend, Harold Macmillan, is currently writing a series of essays on famous men he has known and admired, including Lloyd George...

Al Capp George S Kaufman was one of our most gifted Playwrights. He wrote comedies that made him rich, and satires that broke his heart. There was a difference and Kaufman...

Nantes, Sunday Overwhelmed by the warmth of Cyril Ray's letters, I have crossed the Channel Lucan-style for the second time in a week and sped down to Paris. (On the question of...

My old friend Nick Fitzfosse has told me for above this half Year that he had a great mind to try his hand at a Spectator and that he would fain have one of his Writings in my...

Champagne flowed and so did le Scotch. I learned that in politer French circles where weddings are treated with serious formality (defunct titles and grandfather's first war...

Apart from social scrutinity there are some rather frightening medical examinations to be gone through before marrying in France — blood compatability tests and things that seem...

S pectator July 12, 1975 Easy riders French best men have a very easy ride I found later in the week at the real wedding near Nantes. No formalities like speeches. No...

far as London is concerned (nothing new in the West End for two weeks in a row) and those on piece-work have had to make the best of their dreary scurries around the 'fringe',...

A strong Scottish contingent in kilts made things even more colourful. Sporrans and frogs' legs are in the same league of chauvinistic jokes. Certainly the Scots seemed...

Notts knots It was good to see expatriate octogenarian Cecil Roberts looking so spry on his recent visit to England. His customary geniality seemed in danger of deserting him...

Lord Robens on the need for a new policy on energy Having been involved very intimately since 1947, either from a political administrative point of view or from a primary...

Spectator July 12, 1975 position when drilling may well actually take place on the bed of the ocean itself. The new techniques of drilling in deep and difficult waters will...

Sir Michael Carver The Economics of Defence Gavin Kennedy (Faber and Faber £6.75) It is hard to say who understands least about the economics of defence, professional military...

Edward Norman The Biology of God. A scientist's study of man the religious animal Alister Hardy (Jonathan Cape £4.50) Sir Alister Hardy, the distinguished zoologist, believes...

Please let THE SPECTATOR know when you have received from a fellow subscriber the books that you required. KNUT HAMSUN, any novels. Box 619. ADAM FOX, "Meet the Greek...

Sir Philip Magnus The Later Cecils Kenneth Rose (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £6.50) Mr Kenneth Rose's elegant and charming account of the seven children (five sons and two...

Edward Taylor MP Internal Colonialism (The Celtic Fringe In British National Development, 1536-1966) Michael Hechter (Routledge and Kegan Paul £6.25) Why has . there been such...

Modernist? Peter Ackroyd, Thru Christine Brooke-Rose (Hamish Hamilton 0.50) Stamping Ground Maurice Leitch (Secker and Warburg £3.10) Thru is too little, and it is also too...

A very good year Benny Green The type is familiar enough to have become an archetype; the between-the-wars expatriate English public schoolboy who sits on the terrace...

Eric Baker Once upon a time, back in the 'fifties, a young man there was with three young children and they enjoyed being read to. After exhausting all the well-remembered...

Medicine Medical parliament John Linklater Medical politics again hits the headlines on the occasion of the annual representative meeting of the British Medical Association...

The expendables Walter Plinge I see that the Mirror suffered yet another of its industrial disputes last week so that a lot of Britain was without its flak ration of whatever...

Spectator July 12, 1975 Implicit in the above is the fact that journalists are expendable. If the NUJ chapel at a particular paper chooses to go on strike it does so in the...

What to do with ITV Philip Kleinman The advertising industry, outsiders sometimes forget, is a three-headed beast. Accordingly it doesn't always speak with one voice. That is...

'Fear' and love' are two words which are constantly rattled round in religious vocabularies. The Catechism informs us that our duty towards God is to believe in Him, to fear...

Denis Wood Some of the ancient trackways in the south of Britain may be older than Stonehenge and Avebury, regions of Salisbury Plain which was a centre of civilisation from...

Cinema Too true to be good [Kenneth Robinson The Panic in Needle Park. Director: Jerry Schatzberg Stars: Al Pacino, Kitty Winn 'X' Berkeley One (110 mins). Does this film...

Paperdiscs Rodney Milos The advance in recording techniques, although steady, has not been so sensational in the last fifteen years as in the previous ten; indeed a high water...

'Young America' Evan Anthony Aware though 1 am of the dangers of using superlatives, I advise you unflinchingly that the most beautiful exhibition seen hereabouts in months...

Spectator . July 12, 1975 pictures are more than gifted essays in getting to know the landscape and the people better. The great historical paintings are there — both the...

AND THE CITY The Tuesday drama Nicholas Davenport Mr Healey's hastily prepared antiinflation statement on July 1 — the extreme haste was due to his anxiety to reassure the...

Robin Pringle The Healey 'save the pound' package, unwrapped last week, has been acclaimed in the press, as official 'decisive action' always is, but has had a negligible...

Investing in a name Bernard Hollowood I once attended a luncheon at the head office of a multi-national corporation in New York, and I say once because only money could...

"national". I suppose I should have resigned when the bank became the National Westminster, but by that time I had climbed a few rungs of the social ladder and Westminster no...

When I warned you some three weeks back of the imminence of a pay freeze, even I did not think it was quite this near. Obviously neither did the Chancellor, for the package...

If the Chancellor's tough measures really are made to work and lots of companies go bust as a result, perhaps the National Enterprise Board may come along as the street sweepers...