To anyone familiar with the recent mood of most Moderate Labour MPs, the hollowest laugh of the week Was provided on Tuesday morning by Mr David Marquand. 'Are you disenchanted...

It was a week of merry turmoil at Westminster. Mr lain Sproat, a Scotch Tory MP, named ten Labour Members as fellowtravellers. The press did not print their names, but asked for...

New Bevanite threat John Grigg It is unfortunate for the memory of Aneurin Bevan that his name is shared by a young man—Andy Bevan—who most strikingly embodies the present...

Everyone these days seems to be heaping blame for our present crazy public over spending on Lord Keynes, as the author of 'deficit financing.' There is another name which surely...

Winning the caucus race Auberon Waugh When the Prime Minister, with his stirring call for higher standards in education, launched the Great Education Debate, I decided to keep...

John Charap We were to meet at noon at the grave of Lev Landau, the physicist and Nobel Prizewinner. On the way in to Moscow Ivan didn't tell me the name of the friend we were...

John Biffen The British are an instinctively traditional nation; nowhere is that more evident than in our political institutions. Not, that is, in the pageantry of a Royal...

John Mackintosh The current political situation shows that the old, simple remark in the textbooks, 'Governments must resign or go to the country if they are defeated in the...

Richard West According to a recent book on Berlin in the 1 920s, an American visitor once threw down dollars on to the floor of a restaurant, having Made the proviso that these...

James Hughes-Onslow Lord Lichfield, the compere at Thursday's Miss World contest, always keeps a cigar in his sock: this he revealed at the opening of the Havana Cigar Centre,...

Dirty tricks Jeffrey Bernard It's three weeks now since Youth won the Washington International and still they go on knocking the horse. Even if he would have been disqualified...

Reasons for hope Nicholas Davenport The sterling rescue operation proceeds apace. Mr Callaghan was assured of French co-operation at the Rambouillet meeting with M Giscard...

Sir: Your reviewer of my book Unity Milford alleges that my research methods were curious.' It need be said only that at the outset I informed all the Mitford sisters of ntY...

readers may legitimately expect from a review of the book is some account of its contents, a discussion of the evidence which the author uses, and an appreciation of its truth...

I do not pretend to know the truth, but I have long been worried. For many years I have been engaged upon certain unofficial observations and the accuracy of my efforts is...

of Unity Mitford, one is left wondering to what extent his dislike of the book is based on literary grounds. Could it just be, one wonders, that Lord Lambton, and all those he...

Sir : I am extremely flattered that Mr Leslie Finer has once again taken the trouble to read an article of mine about Greece (16 October), and comment on it in print (30...

Sir: In his recent article Mr Waugh referred to a question I have asked about cruelty in the feeding of geese to provide pcite de foie gra.v. He commented that there are rather...

Sir : He who does not now see that our main economic difficulties stem from the attempt to incorporate the UK in a system which does not suit its requirements surely has his...

Sir: It is true, as Professor Johnson argues, that Keynes was a man of his own time and did not discuss many problems which have become topical in the last twenty years. He took...

Sir: Nicholas Davenport in his 30 October article points, among other things, t ° Britain's extremely efficient financial systeln and the possibility of pledging oversea s...

Tennessee in pyjamas Alan Brien Memoirs Tennessee Williams (W. H. Allen £4.95) Tennessee Williams's 'thing,' as he calls his memoirs, comes to those of us who read the Nev...

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Jan Morris The Oil Sheikhs Linda Blandford (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £5.25) The Arabs Peter Mansfield (Allen Lane E8.50) Dr Kissinger calls a sheikh a sheek, or did last time I...

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Benny Green A, n Oxford Childhood Carola Oman (Hodder and Stoughton £5.25) P eople who have been fortunate enough to g r ow up in the cloisters of Oxford and still einerge...

John Grigg Eton Days Photographs by Nicholas Barlow, text by Oliver Van Oss (Lund Humphries £5.95) There have been many books about Eton and no doubt there will be many more....

Duncan Fallowell The Last Empire: Photography in British India 1855-1911 selected by Clark Worswick, with a commentary by Ains lee Embree (Gordon Fraser £9.95) And what have we...

Gillian Freeman The Other Women Barry Kay (Matthe ws Miller Dunbar £3.95) if you think that Australian men are noth ing , but a load of Bruces drinking Fosters , waiting for...

The old 'Old Vic' A. C. Cook Whit Monday, II May, 1818, was a momentous day for the residents of South London, „ f or where the Lower Marsh joins the W aterloo Road a new...

Come again Rodney Milnes The thing about Sir William Walton's Troilus and Cressida, revived (and not before time) at Covent Garden, is that it contains the most erotic love...

Bright star John McEwen Lawrence Preece's latest watercolours and acrylics (Redfern till 1 December) further advance his exploration of space. By various devices he creates...

Play ball Clancy Sigal Michael Ritchie's subject is American competitiveness, its fierceness and costs. In The Candidate he tore apart power-lusting politicians; in Smile the...

Full moon Ted Whitehead The impressive thing about Alf Garnett (The Thoughts of Chairman All, Criterion ) is that he really feels the things he says he feels; he hasn't...

Forsooth Richard Ingrams Spokesmen for London Weekend Television were quick, rather too quick perhaps, to deny suggestions that the suicide of their Programme Controller,...