the House of Lords on Tuesday, nd however much he may see himself as a tier-day reincarnation of Lloyd George and squith, snatching electoral victory from he jaws of defeat by a...

No one who has followed the career of Mr Enoch Powell imagined for a moment that he had invited dismissal from the Shadow Cabinet in order to place himself at the head of a...

The House of Lords, defying the lightning, voted a Government measure down. By 193 to 184 they threw out the Order in Council to enforce the sanctions against Rho- desia...

POLITICAL COMMENTARY AUBERON WAUGH Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive but to be a peer was very heaven. After years of abuse and indignity, the House of Lords was going to...

FRANCE MARC ULLMANN Paris—On Sunday the first round of the French general election takes place. The voters are then supposed to shut the unexpected demons that were first set...

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J. W. M. THOMPSON How many connoisseurs of constitutional crises can identify the characteristic these names have in common : Bertrand Russell, Gilbert Murray, Thomas Hardy, J....

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Inter- national League of Peace and Liberty holds its annual session this year at Berne. This League is an informal Parliament of Red leaders, and its meeting at Geneva last...

RELIGION-1 KENNETH ALLSOP When this present age is looked back upon by historians of the far future perhaps the aspect of western civilisation that will intrigue them most is...

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STUDENTS STUART MACLURE Students show no signs of deserting the head- lines. Education reporters have been plying to and fro from Homsey College of Art where the students'...

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THE LAW R. A. CLINE It is a time-honoured , principle of the English law of extradition that a fugitive criminal must not be surrendered if the offence for Which he is wanted...

CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS A hundred and fifty-three civil servants were included in the recent Honours List. St Peter found it very right Matt Busby should be dubbed a knight, And,...

TIBOR SZAMUELY What do all the .following have in common: Harold Wilson, Nguyen Cao Ky, Charles de Gaulle, Enoch Powell, George Papadopoulos, Anthony Crosland, Georges Bidault,...

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PATRICK ANDERSON The White' Garnett Letters edited by David Garnett (Cape 50s) T. H. White was recently brought alive in Miss Sylvia Townsend Warner's splendid biography....

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BRYAN ROBERTSON I must urge anyone seriously concerned with art, or even beginning to nod in its direction, to go post-haste to Kasmin's Gallery in Bond Street to see four...

Three plums HILARY SPURLING The Ha-ha (Hampstead Theatre Club) Not Now Darling (Strand) Programme Two (Bunraku National Theatre of Japan at the Aldwych) Jennifer Dawson's The...

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Under wrapped PENELOPE HOUSTON Petulia (Curzon, 'X') A Lovely Way to Go (Odeon, Leicester Square, 'A') One sometimes wonders how Britain's famous swinging cinema is going to...

PARTICIPATION NICHOLAS DAVENPORT As the revolutionary ferment of our time springs from the discontent of student and worker with the authoritarian conditions of employment I...

CHRISTOPHER FILDES The City is used to shocks; professionally, in- deed, it is something of a shock-absorber. The astonishing turn of events in the battle for Cambridge...

AFRICAN VIEWPOINT ANTONY MARTIN Antony Martin is editor of Business and Economy, the financial journal of East and Central Africa. Lusaka, Zambia—One way (not the best. but...

PORTFOLIO JOHN BULL A'friend who had some jewellery revalued the other day told .me that diamonds were better than shares. In particular, he said, referring to the SPECTATOR...

CUSTOS The market in equity shares once more looks like the only man in step. The May trade figures belied the Chancellor ' s hints of an improve- ment; and the balance of...

LETTERS From : Robert Horton. K. 0 bih, David Hughes, G. C. S. Hopcutt, the Rev Oliver Sutton, Claud Cockburn, Richard Wiggs, Tibor Szamuely. Sir: I am writing to express my...

Sir: Of course it was not a salmon that was blown through the window of the railway car- riage at Youghal station. I cannot imagine how Donald McLachlan in his otherwise...

June), and from one inhibited from baby- hood up, my experience has been that homo- sexuals can ruin youth clubs and boys' clubs, that they are unbalanced and weak in per-...

Sir: I was deeply shocked to read of the troubles of Nancy Mitford in Paris, her cosy little world of tea-parties having been disturbed by the troubles. It is indeed an unhappy...

Sir: Mr Simon Raven's article (14 June) makes a very welcome change from the outpourings of the progressively orthodox on this subject. So much so, that I hesitate before...

ciation of your latest editorial comment on genocide in Biafra and the role Her Majesty's Government is playing in it. I am impressed by your comments not because they seem to...

Sir: Mr Geoffrey Bing is highly displeased with my review of his book, but his present arguments are much flimsier even than those mustered in Reap the Whirlwind (Letters, 7...

Sir: Mr Hurren's enthusiasm for Concorde, his efforts to justify the unjustifiable, are leading him to some strange assertions (Letters, 14 June). He claims to be 'giving...

AFTERTHOUGHT JOHN WELLS 'Use the police when they're on your side—it's standard revolutionary practice.' Mr Kenneth Tynan, demanding the removal by the police of a Times...

COMPETITION Competitors are invited to compose an eight-line poem or stanza of a poem on any one of the subjects given below, using four of the following five pairs of words as...

Out of a particularly large number of entries for this week's Word Game it is remarkable that all bar a bare dozen or so chose to back that well-tried, much-hacked veteran of...

PHILIDOR Black White I I men 10 men H. Weenink (Nederlandsche Schaakbond, 1918). White to play and mate in three moves; solution next week. Solution to no. 391...

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