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PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK
The SpectatorMany works of art are now considered to be Major forgeries D elegates for talks met at Stormont in Northern Ireland. By the agreed policy of the British and Irish governments,...
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SPECTATOR
The SpectatorThe Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL Telephone: 0171-405 1706; Telex 27124; Fax 0171-242 0603 THE EUROPEAN MIND A majority of Conservative MPs are Eurosceptics...
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POLITICS
The SpectatorEurope has almost wrecked the Tories. They must now turn it to their advantage BRUCE ANDERSON I t may seem an extraordinary assertion, but it is also a true one: a...
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DIARY
The SpectatorALAN WATKINS h e clearest sign of our political degener- acy is the National Lottery. Do not misun- derstand me: I have no objection at all either to our having a lottery or to...
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ANOTHER VOICE
The SpectatorThe Archbishop's evasions are supposed to bring reconciliation. But they leave me furious MATTHEW PARRIS N obody who writes for newspapers believes all he reads in them, so...
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PROFITING FROM LABOUR
The Spectatorvia that institution of which even 'new' Labour is wary: the stock-market FOR THOSE in the City with long enough memories, Labour governments denote rampant inflation, high...
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BIG BREAKFASTS, BIG RECESSES, BIG MEN
The SpectatorRoy Jenkins compares political life in Gladstone's time with that of today From a lecture delivered in the Old Library of the Guildhall, at the invitation of the Cor- poration...
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BRITAIN: A DOG'S LIFE FOR SO MANY
The SpectatorLike pub opening hours and drug laws, our quarantine rules are the sign of an undemocratic society, says David Hockney In the 25 May issue of The Spectator, Rory Knight Bruce,...
Mind your language
The Spectator`NOW I know how you feel', my hus- band replied, 'when people ask you stupid questions.' `But all I asked, darling, was what the connections are between anomie and...
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WHERE IT'S LEFT-WING TO DENY THE HOLOCAUST
The SpectatorDouglas Johnson explains why, in France, two famous champions of the poor can claim that the Jews' wartime fate is a postwar myth Paris HE IS the most popular man in France,...
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AND ANOTHER THING
The SpectatorPlaying the quality card in England's green and pleasant land PAUL JOHNSON G ood may yet come out of the mad cow crisis. In the first place, it has set us thinking seriously...
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Big hitter
The SpectatorREINVENTION of another kind is under way at Barclays de Zoete Wedd, which, needing a new chief executive, has hired Bill Harrison away from Robert Fleming. Under his robust...
. . . it's Rupert's reinvention
The SpectatorIT IS ten years since Rupert Hambro peeled off from his family bank. With his father and two brothers, he set up J.O. Hambro — named for Jocelyn, his father, and in City...
CITY AND SUBURBAN
The SpectatorHere's a test case for how to help industry try getting out of change's way CHRISTOPHER FILDES T he managing director is the one who knows where the factory is and even goes...
Merchants venture back.. .
The SpectatorI AM delighted to bring news of the Society of Merchants Trading to the Continent. A year ago this grand old City institution was on its last legs, a victim of the blight which...
Exchange and mart
The SpectatorTHE HEADHUNTERS had their work cut out to find the Stock Exchange a chief exec- utive. It had fired the last one, and the one before, and I know of two possible candi- dates...
The mood he's in
The SpectatorHAVING GOT this far, I found myself tun- ing in to Will Hutton's television series, False Economy. In it, he develops the ideas which are said to be such an influence on...
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Bedroom farce
The SpectatorSir: I wonder what Peter Oborne means when he writes, 'Everything is perfectly straightforward in bed as far as Mr Norris is concerned' (`The one who got away with it', 8 June)....
A trencherman too
The SpectatorSir: Anne McElvoy seems to have misread the expression on Peter Mandelson's pinched white cheeks as I interviewed him over dinner at Interlude de Chavot last February CI danced...
Heartless coalition
The SpectatorSir: Rael Jean Isaac thinks that prospects for the preservation of Israel's Jewish and Zionist character will be better — as a result of the coalition between the religious...
LETTERS The council that cares
The SpectatorSir: Alfred Sherman's article (`Shirley, champion of the heart of Britain', 25 May) describes well the aims of those of us in Westminster council who have sought to save the...
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Look-alikes
The SpectatorSir: During your predecessor's time there was talk of putting pictures of your regular contributors at the head of their articles so that those of us far away from home would...
Misplaced nostalgia
The SpectatorSir: Peter Phillips's article (Arts, 25 May) on the supposed malaise currently affecting the classical recording industry is one-sided and highly misleading . Yes, there are...
Plays on words
The SpectatorSir: A question to radio's Brains' Trust dur- ing the war was on the lines of 'Is the pun the lowest form of wit and humour?'(Lead- er, 1 June). The panel of Joad, Huxley and...
Sir: Lady Astor (if it was she) said, 'Navel engagement
The Spectatorwithout loss of semen' — much neater than 'intercourse' and punnier (Let- ters, 8 June). Ross Watkin Pigeonhouse Cottage, Rectory Road, Mugswell, Surrey
Sir: I am amused to read that Jan Morris thinks
The SpectatorJohn Major 'slightly makes up' for the least prepossessing British government in living or historical memory and might even be a 'decent enough sort of fellow'. Tch, tch. Such...
An all-time Low
The SpectatorSir: Bruce Anderson is wrong in attributing the famous cartoon 'Very well, alone' to the Daily Mirror cartoonist, Zec (Politics, 25 May). It was drawn by David Low, and appeared...
Singing the blues
The SpectatorSir: Jan Morris need not worry that the Conservatives will win the next general election (`Mr Blair, loser of the Labour Party', 8 June), although she may be right to question...
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MEDIA STUDIES
The SpectatorIf you're very slightly famous, and disagree with Mr Dacre, board up your windows STEPHEN GLOVER P ul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail, is not a household name. His face is not...
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FURTHERMORE
The SpectatorWhy I am unfit to lead the free world PETRONELLA WYATT W ho will speak for Mr Clinton? Sure- ly the choler, the dyspepsia, the indignation has gone far enough. Mr Clinton's...
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THE SHIVA NAIPAUL MEMORIAL PRIZE
The SpectatorBAD TIMES IN BUENOS AIRES MIRANDA FRANCE ARGENTINES have a word for the way they feel: bronca. An Italo-Spanish fusion, like most Argentines themselves, the word implies a...
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BOOKS
The SpectatorHer own best friend David Sexton INSTRUCTIONS NOT INCLUDED by Paula Hamilton Michael Joseph, £15.99, pp. 304 t is strange that the cult of the model has taken so long to...
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Only a memory of the same
The SpectatorMain de Botton ALL RIVERS RUN TO THE SEA: MEMOIRS, VOLUME I by Elie Wiesel HarperCollins, £20, pp. 432 I t is incumbent upon the Jewish writer to be witness to all that has...
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A miss is as good as Amis
The SpectatorCaroline Moore ALTERED STATES by Anita Brookner Cape, £14.99, pp. 220 A nita Brookner's new novel has the bold title, Altered States, which may lay her open to a few...
Always true to you, darling
The SpectatorJane Gardam DOUBLE TAKE by Eleanor Bron Weidenfel4 £15.99, pp. 312 E leanor Bron's astonishing, unmistak- able face looks out from the jacket flap of her first novel, unchanged...
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Mothers and daughters
The SpectatorAnita Brookner SHADOW BABY by Margaret Forster Chatto, £15.99, pp. 346 R eaders of this enthralling chronicle are advised to have a pencil and paper handy and to spend a few...
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The father also rises
The SpectatorRichard Ingleby WILLIAM NICHOLSON, PAINTER edited by Andrew Nicholson Giles de la Mere Ltd, 3 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AU, £45, pp. 294 Wil illiam Nicholson, Painter is a...
In apprehension how like a god!
The SpectatorPeter Jones UNDERSTANDING GREEK SCULPTURE by Nigel Spivey Thames & Hudson, £28, pp. 240 M ost art these days could be confused with anything else. It is designed as 'art' by...
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A traveller from several antique lands
The SpectatorWilliam Dalrymple TAMARA: MEMOIRS OF ST PETERSBURG, PARIS, OXFORD, AND BYZANTIUM by Tamara Talbot Rice, edited by Elizabeth Talbot Rice John Murray, f19.99, pp. 274 I n March...
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Something or other doth hedge a king
The SpectatorPhilip Ziegler THE KINGS AND QUEENS: AN IRREVERENT CARTOON HISTORY OF THE BRITISH MONARCHY by Kenneth Baker Thames & Hudson, L15, pp. 192 C aricature, Kenneth Baker tells us,...
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We have seen the moment of his greatness flicker
The SpectatorJonathan Cecil WITH NAILS by Richard E. Grant Picador, £16.99, pp. 310 W en I joined the acting profession, almost 20 years before Richard E. Grant, books by actors about their...
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ARTS
The SpectatorExhibitions 1 Picasso and Portraiture (Museum of Modern Art, New York, till 17 September) Are you a masochist? Roger Kimball W hat more can one say about Picas- so? Long...
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Exhibitions 2
The SpectatorSummer Exhibition (Royal Academy, till 18 August) Summer's truffle hunt Martin Gayford O h to be in an art gallery now that summer's here! But preferably not at the Summer...
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Ottoman eloquence
The SpectatorEdward Lucie-Smith visits the new gallery at the School of Oriental and African Studies P ure coincidence, and the vagaries of my opera subscription, led me to a perfor- mance...
SPECTA E TOR
The SpectatorThe Spectator index for July to December 1995 is now available. This six monthly comprehensive alphabetical listing of subjects, titles and contributors is a necessity for...
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Gardens
The SpectatorChelsea bliss Ursula Buchan E ver since the days of Lord Abercon- way, the last president of the Royal Horti- cultural Society but two, it has become tradition for each year's...
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Theatre
The SpectatorCamelot (Freemason's Hall) Habeas Corpus (Donmar Warehouse) Oh, what a lovely score! Sheridan Morley T here was, once upon a time, an era of magical entertainment in which...
Cinema
The SpectatorThe Confessional (15, selected cinemas) Hitchcock backdrop Mark Steyn I know he's supposed to be a theatrical genius, but personally I've always found Robert Lepage's stage...
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Radio
The SpectatorDelivery systems Michael Vestey D id you know that radio and television are 'delivery systems'? In a strict, bloodless and technical sense they are, of course, in that they...
Television
The SpectatorNo suspense just disbelief James Dehngpole I would never let my honorary nine-year old stay up to watch American Gothic (Channel 4, Wednesday), but not for the reasons you...
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Motoring
The SpectatorResults please Alan Judd L ast year (25 November) I described the Broquet fuel catalyst, a second world war invention that helped keep Hurricanes flying on the Russian Front....
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The turf
The SpectatorRacing against football Robin Oakley F irst the commercial. Last week this col- umn offered three horses to fill the first three places in the Derby: Dushyantor, Glory of...
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High life
The SpectatorMy biggest mistake Tel k1 Baden Baden I made the biggest mistake of my life exactly 40 years ago right here, in beautiful Baden Baden. I arrived as a fresh 19-year- old with a...
Low life
The SpectatorShoot-out brewing Jeffrey Bernard A I have said before in these columns, the older I get the more tetchy, irritable and reactionary I become. The tetchiness has reached...
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Country life
The SpectatorA mean business Leanda de Lisle I f I felt I could afford to buy the Thomire clocks and Old Masters displayed at the Grosvenor House Antiques Fair, I would spend a civilised...
MADEIRA
The SpectatorBRIDGE Count down Andrew Robson AN ABILITY to count the opponents' hand is essential in the quest to become an expert. Don't be daunted — it comes natu- rally with practice,...
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Imperative cooking: food in code
The SpectatorLET ME introduce you to the code. I wel- come suggestions for improving on it: Prague: 2/SN. Turkey: 10/W. New York: 10/ 5FM/RC. France (except P-de-C & Brit): Unl. Aberdeen:...
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J SISGLE 111LT Nt1I01.1119,1
The SpectatorURA IN COMPETITION NO. 1936 you were invited to supply helpful mnemonic verses for those who have difficulty remembering the names of the seven dwarfs (or dwarves) in Snow...
SIMPSON'S
The SpectatorIN-THE-STRAND CHESS SIMPSON'S IN-THE•STRAND First blood Raymond Keene WITH the break-up of the USSR it was expected that the momentum for chess organisation would move...
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CROSSWORD
The SpectatorA first prize of £25 and a bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 1989 Port for the first correct solution opened on 1 July, with two runners-up prizes of £15 (or, for UK...
Solution to 1262: Fowl fly or walk 1 L Elan W
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Competition entries
The SpectatorTo enable competitors to economise on postage, entries for one or more weeks of the competition and/or crossword may be posted together under one cover addressed 'Competition...
No. 1939: Der Lattenzaun
The SpectatorPrinted below is a poem of this title by Christian Morgenstern. You are invited to supply a verse translation, close or loose. Entries to 'Competition No. 1939' by 27 June. Es...
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SPECTATOR SPORT
The SpectatorSassenachs beware? Simon Barnes SCOTLAND'S ambitions of global conquest are traditionally obscured by their obsession with the place on the other side of the wall. This is as...
YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED
The SpectatorDear Mary. . Q. I was dining and staying overnight with some friends in a fairly grand house in Gloucestershire, and my host and hostess had to leave early next morning to...