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Administering the social services
The SpectatorIn almost every one of the several recent cases in which children have been seriously, and even dangerously, neglected by their parents in spite of the attention â and even...
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Statistics
The SpectatorSir: In his article about statistics relating to minority groups (January 10), Patrick Cosgrave states that the CRC and I have opposed the collection of statistics of children...
The new learning
The SpectatorSir: The new learning that has recently been the subject of growing alarm among parents and others because of its baleful influence on primary school standards has its origins...
21B King's Avenue, Londons. W5 Sir: Your leading article on
The Spectatorthe educational system (January 10) gave a good vindication of the interests of parents against politicians, bureaucrats and teachers, but it gave no attention to the group...
Sponger
The SpectatorSir: Nearly a page and a half about my book on Rousseau, and that on publication day and at the head of the book section! Who could ask for more? So even though your reviewer...
Irish History
The SpectatorSir: Through your column may I take issue with Mt Enoch I re l ando ch Powell (your i ssue two o points f ja January u a o r arising y s i n g lofrom bo t h his a t h o concern...
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See of troubles
The Spectatorth e In your Westminster Succession survey, almost h m e only ray of light was the idea that the traditional Present might soon return as an alternative to the were "aweful...
"Omen's year
The SpectatorMr Gadd obviously thinks (The Spectator, Et ail k_ Uar Y 1 7) that an unnecessary fuss has been made 0 -7Jut ru,ry and he expresses his fears about the Sex 8 , ' 1 1 1 , e...
Sj, ! 5 Sss Barbara Dorf all e ,â" ° 'Woman's Year' or any legislation can
The Spectatorp ro j'ate one of the central problems regarding the es4 lonal single woman. This is that in her social life she is doomed to second-rate treatment. The lunch with the...
Sir: I was greatly amused to read under the leading
The Spectator'Women's year' Mr Patric Bury's clever and witty letter. I too have something to say on the subject. On New Year's Day I received a telegram from a friend in Canada addressed to...
Dirt
The SpectatorFrom Surgeon Commander T. W. Froggatt Sir: "A good bit of dirt, that was!" said the Sussex farmer as we looked out over the new reservoir gradually beginning to fill up with the...
Purley, Surrey
The SpectatorWestern will SIR: Your account of 'The Decline of the Western Will' treats as one problem matters of which clarity of thought requires separate treatment. Why be surprised at...
The New University
The SpectatorFrom Professor Max Beloff Sir: Dr Rhodes Boyson needs no defence from me, but Mr Towes (December 27) is ill-informed about the University College at Buckingham and has perhaps...
Wake up!
The SpectatorSir: Wake up 'Spectator'! The danger lights are flashing and the fight is on, but - The Spectator is becoming respectable and even boring. No longer does one have to hide one's...
The language
The SpectatorSir: I believe that a generous number of people, who have a real regard for our language, will agree with me in congratulating Auberon Waugh for exposing the horrid opinions,...
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Political commentary
The SpectatorThe politics of economics Patrick Cosgrave "Damned dots", Lord Randolph Churchill is said to have called decimal points when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer. For many years...
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A Spectator's Notebook rj There was something unreal, almost glibs tlY,
The Spectatorabout the four-day Commons debate on d evolution. The Government was asking the House to take note of its White Paper â an , lu bocuous enough proposition, one might 'Intik....
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United States
The SpectatorHer American Excellency Leslie Finer Washington Poor Senator Jacob Javits. His wife Marion has become a registered lobbyist â at 67,500 dollars a year, no less â for a...
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Ulster
The SpectatorA very odd speech Keith Kyle The most extraordinary contribution to the -'4ntrions debate on Northern Ireland ! ctr aordinary not, to be sure, as a parliamenn' occasion since...
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Ireland
The SpectatorEngland's Irish history Richard West Reading Enoch Powell's plea (Spectator, 10 'January) that English people should study' more Irish history, I thought of a speech made by...
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Electoral reform
The SpectatorA true Tory cause bouglas Hurd In retrospect, one can see, it was inevitable. The Blackpool Conference was naturally deter!fled to show its confidence in Margaret inatcher as...
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After Chou
The SpectatorTransition in Peking Sir John Keswick Before offering some ideas and suggestions on the future leadership in China, following the deeply lamented death ofi Prime Minister Chou...
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Society
The SpectatorThe violent English? Quentin Crewe 10 1 was the wheelwri g ht in the villa g e when I Was a boy. Youn g Tom he was c a lled then to distin g uish him from his father, Now, of...
Mr Bernard Shrimsley: an apology
The SpectatorIn an action in the Hi g h Court between Mr Bernard Shrimsley, Plaintiff, and Mr Bill Grundy, Mr Harold Di g by Fitz g erald Crei g hton and The Spectator Unlimited, Counsel for...
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Country life
The SpectatorMoney for the Parks Denis Wood It is good news that the Countryside Commission is to provide an extra £150,000 over the next eighteen months for capital equipment, including...
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Education
The SpectatorThe decline in modern languages Logie Bruce Lockhart Th e HMC is holding an inquest into the falling sta ndards in modern languages. The state !Ystem fares no better; our...
Transport
The SpectatorArt for BR's sake Jim Higgins The transport campaign is hea,ting up very nicely. Mr Crosland has resurrected the term 'codswallop', Mr Sid Weighell has called Mr Crosland a...
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Lord Beaverbrook
The SpectatorAt the Vineyard Kirsty Aitken On a hot summer afternoon in 1918, Lord Beaverbrook decided to leave his Fleet Street office and drive down to the Hurlingham Club to play...
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Another voice
The SpectatorThe North Sea Bubble Auberon Waugh k G eCently I was dining with the owner of agreat 1 , r eek shipping line, a cheerful, intelligent, " n sPitable man whom I had never met...
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The whole truth?
The SpectatorPhilip Knightley The Day Guernica Died Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts (Hodder and Stoughton £4.95) Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts are two authors who specialise in...
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Love and marriage Ronald Hingley Dost oyevskY:' Reminiscences Anna DostoyevskY, translated
The Spectatorand edited by Beatrice Stillman ( Wildwood House £8.95) "The simple, glowing history of a great love." This is how Anna Dostoyevsky's memoirs of her husband are described in...
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A red menace?
The SpectatorMary Kaldor The Soviet Navy Today John E. Moore (Macdonald and Jane's £6.95) This glossy book by the editor of the authoritative Jane's Fighting Ships is timely, for there is...
New frontier
The SpectatorMagnus Magnusson The People's Land: Eskimos and Whites in t he , Eastern Arctic Hugh Brody (Pelican 90p) "The wife . . . is now clearly the domina nt partner. Such women send...
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History rampant
The SpectatorJ. Enoch Powell Pedigree and Progress Sir Anthony Wagner (Phillimore £8.75) The Heraldic Imagination Rodney Dennys (Banie and Jenkins £10.00) There is no such thing as...
The Spectator
The SpectatorAs most newsagents are reluctant to carry surplus copies, some readers may have difficulty in obtaining The Spectator. To ensure a regular copy We would ask our readers to Place...
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BOOKS WANTED
The SpectatorTROTTIE TRUE Caryl Brahns & S. J. Simon, Michael Joseph. About 1947/48. P. Baird, 12 Park St., London KAMET CONQUERED by F. S. Smyth, SHE FELL AMONG THIEVES, B-BERRY AND I LOOK...
Carve up
The SpectatorSimon Jenkins Goodbye Britain? Tony Aldous (Sidgwick and Jackson £4.50) 1975 was without doubt the year of the conservationist. The collapse of the property boom and the...
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Fiction
The SpectatorTV times Peter Ackroyd Ragtime D. L. Doctorow (Macmillan £3.50) All our friends have been reading it, haven't they? Here it is at last, the biggest piece of i L iclu strial...
Bookend
The SpectatorWe still await the outcome of the anti-trust suit brought fifteen months ago by the US Justice Department against the twenty-one unsuspecting New York publishers accused of...
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Theatre
The SpectatorRound House chic Kenneth Hurren The 1k by Denis Cannan and Cohn Higgins, from the book The Mountain People by Colin Turnbull (Round House, Chalk Farm) Judgement by Barry...
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Television
The SpectatorThe worst is the best ,Jeffrey Bernard Saying goodbye to Poldark last Sunday brought a lump to my throat. For sixteen weeks solidly I've followed the ups and ups of the...
Cinema
The SpectatorFantasies Kenneth Robinson The Bawdy Adventures of Torn Jones Director: Cliff Owen. Stars: Nicky Henson, Geraldine McEwan, Georgia Brown, Arthur Lowe, Trevor Howard. 'X'...
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Art
The SpectatorSurreal into real John McEwen The Arts Council exhibition of Max Ernst's prints, collages and drawings has finally arrived in London (ICA till Feb 29) after a ten-stop tour of...
Records
The SpectatorThe young master Rodney Mines Mozart was sixteen when he wrote Lucia Silla. It was his umpteenth opera, and his second opera seria. Although Leopold reported from Milan that...
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Rats off to Mr Healey
The SpectatorNicholas Davenport IsiC/1"--r Healey a monetarist? Is he in economic L e nns anything? I do not suppose that he knows h ' ur nselfIndeed, it would be fatal if we were to LlVe a...
A fool and his money
The SpectatorVery expensive ⢠advertising Bernard Hollowood Sport in Britain is financially dependent upon advertising to an increasing extent, and one after another the big advertisers,...
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Skinflint's City Diary
The SpectatorThe Chancellor's letter to the International Monetary Fund asking for the first chunk of the loans they have put aside for us (over £2,000 million in all) was apparently full...