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New forces in Ulster
The SpectatorThroughout the last two years of trouble in Ulster visitors to the province have looked in vain for a break in the sectarian character of its politics. Miss Devlin's victory in...
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POLITICAL COMMENTARY
The SpectatorIf only Jim were a Tory PETER PATERSON One by one the issues on which the forth- coming—October?—general election is likely to be fought are being brought out by the...
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SOUTH AFRICA
The SpectatorA tiff in the laager ANTHONY DELIUS If there was any prediction that could have been made with absolute confidence about this week's South African general elections, it was...
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AMERICA
The SpectatorOverkill season GEOFFREY WAGNER New York— As I write, baby seals are being systematically bludgeoned to bloody pulp around the Gulf of St Lawrence (the only area legally to...
Inc and Eng
The SpectatorCHRISTOPHER HOLLIS Dr Spock has come to England to speak for the Civil Liberties Legal Defence Fund, Inc. The 'Inc' is important, indicating that it is the American...
UNIVERSITIES
The SpectatorThe Pooh revolutionaries IAN MacGREGOR Consider, with as much patience and sym- pathy as you can, the plight of the left-wing academic—not that pleasant tweed-jacketed fellow...
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SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
The SpectatorJ. W. M. THOMPSON The fact that the run-up to the general elec- tion coincides with a period of galloping inflation is not going to help politicians to make good the loss of...
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PERSONAL COLUMN
The SpectatorRed hands across the sea QUINTIN HOGG Carson fought for an Ireland united under the Westminster Parliament. Redmond, who in August 1914, without a moment's hesita- tion,...
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OXFORD LETTER
The SpectatorOn student strikes & pasquills MERCURIUS OXONIENSIS GOOD BROTHER LONDINIENSIS I am glad to learn, from your letter of the 8th inst., that those absurd speculations of Master...
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A hundred years ago
The SpectatorFrom the 'Spectator', 23 April 1870—A meeting was held in Trafalgar Square on Friday by a number of poor persons calling themselves the "Land and Labour League," who made...
CONSUMING INTEREST
The SpectatorPolitical squibs LESLIE ADRIAN At 2s 3d per copy the official report of debates in the House of Lords (commonly (or perhaps one should say nobly) named Hansard, cannot be a...
THE PRESS
The SpectatorPenny foolish BILL GRUNDY If you're a reader of the Daily Sketch, you may have noticed something different about it lately, quite apart from the marked liberal-, isation of...
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VIEWPOINT
The SpectatorThe message of the spheres GEORGE GALE The electric thread, or skein rather, which never lost hold of Apollo 13, which still held when the oxygen tank exploded, which kept...
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BOOKS Prizes and the midcult
The SpectatorMARTIN SEYMOUR-SMITH It was announced this week that the second winner of the Booker Prize for fiction, which is worth £5,000 and a trophy, is Bernice Rubens for The Elected...
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NEW NOVELS
The SpectatorWorlds apart BARRY COLE Kappa Ryunosuke Akutagawa translated by Geoffrey Bownas (Peter Owen 36s) The Hide Barry Unsworth (Gollancz 32s) Shadow of the Monsoon William Man-...
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Senior partner
The SpectatorKENNETH YOUNGER Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department Dean Acheson (Hamish Hamilton 105s) Dean Acheson's memoirs of his years in the State Department...
True and false
The SpectatorBERNARD LEWIS The Chatham House Version and Other Middle Eastern Studies Elie Kedourie (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 75s) Much has been written about the pro- cesses that have...
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Weighty matter
The SpectatorM. LLEWELLYN SMITH Politics in Modern Greece Keith R. Legg (Standford up/our 95s) The nature of modern Greek politics has frequently been misunderstood by those who have been...
Blue-eyed boy
The SpectatorPATRICK ANDERSON Being Geniuses Together 1920-1930, Robert McAlmon revised by Kay Boyle (Michael Joseph 60s) I've wanted for years to get hold of the late Richard McAlmon's...
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ARTS
The SpectatorTrouble in the pit GILLIAN WIDDICOMBE So the London orchestras are squabbling again. Its not surprising: hardly a month goes by without some juicy swap or scandal behind some...
Royal Court censorship Under_ the above heading, six months ago.
The Spectatorreaders were informed of the English Stage Company's refusal to invite the SPECTATOR'S critic to any future production at the Royal Court. At the insistence of the Arts Council...
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OPERA
The SpectatorIsland story JOHN HIGGINS A year ago Edward Downes, introducing Humphrey Searle's Hamlet to a Sunday evening gathering of the Friends of Covent Garden, said it was the duty of...
CINEMA
The SpectatorLittle father PENELOPE HOUSTON The Sixth of July (Paris Pullman, `U') Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly (Rialto, 'X') It is possibly slightly rough on the Russians that any...
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THEATRE
The SpectatorGiddy heights HILARY SPURLING Whose Turn Next? (Cinoherni Klub at the Aldwych) Richard III (Stratford) Medea (Greenwich) Widowers' Houses (Royal Court) The Cinoherni Klub from...
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MONEY SPECIAL After the Budget: a survey An incomes policy
The Spectatoror bust REGINALD 1VIAUDLING Reactions to a Budget normally come in two phases. There is the first shock, the delight with tax reductions, or more frequently, of late, the fury...
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Mother Jenkins's tinfoil egg
The SpectatorDAVID MONTAGU By Easter it is normal for the pantomime season to be over, but there is one par- ticularly tired piece of pantomime indulged in by politicians which has, I am...
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Markets after the Budget
The SpectatorNICHOLAS DAVENPORT The City looked at Mr Jenkins's little gift horse in the mouth and rudely showed its disapproval. The post-Budget markets on the Stock Exchange were quick to...
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SET: facts and fallacies
The SpectatorJOHN CHOWN The selective employment tax, first intro- duced in the 1966 Budget, was originally designed to collect £600 million gross and to yield £315 million net. Since then...
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INSURANCE
The SpectatorSafe and sound? JOHN BULL The insurance industry is in a particularly troubled frame of mind at the moment. At home motor , business has suddenly become much more itifficult...
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LETTERS
The SpectatorFrom D. H. Cameron, Lt-Col H. R. Pelly, George Henry, L. Clarke, Tibor Szamuely, R. W. Taylor, A. H. Samuel, Christopher Mohler, M. Doutrepont, Emrys Jones. The dwarfs of Lime...
Tennis balls, my liege
The SpectatorSir: As one who has lived in South Africa a good deal longer than Mr Douglas Brown, I found his 'Tennis balls, my liege' (4 April) not only well below the standard of his...
Policy for the environment
The SpectatorSir: In his article 'A policy for the environ- ment' (11 April) Mr Heath expounds Con- servative views on problems such as clean air, noise, water resources and so on and asks...
Enter Tito's policeman
The SpectatorSir: Lajos Lederer (Letters, 11 April) 'flatly denies' Mr Ribicic's responsibility for the massacres described in my article. Such ex cathedra pronouncements, I fear, carry very...
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Swan upon waving water
The SpectatorSir: Mrs Hilary Spurling speaks (18 April) of the 'revolution' in producing Restoration comedy which William Gaskill 'largely engin- eered' through his National Theatre Recruit-...
Forty years on
The SpectatorSir: Whatever is happening to Winchester? How can your reviewer (18 April) pretend that he thinks so eminent and beloved a politician as Sir John Betjeman's Wykeham- ist is...
AFTERTHOUGHT
The SpectatorMr Bigg's story JOHN WELLS This week we begin publication of the world's most wanted manuscript: the first- person story of the Great Newspaper Rob- ber MISTER BIGG. It has...
Radical scholarship
The SpectatorSir: In his very fine review of Chomsky's book (II April), John Sparrow unfortunately repeats Chomsky's self-serving lie that he is 'conducting . . . a ceaseless campaign...
Going on before
The SpectatorSir: With regard to John Julius Norwich's comments on A History of the Crusades (21 March), I wish to inform you that at all times 'Liege' was written with an acute accent. It...
The great tax swindle
The SpectatorSir: While sympathising with Mr George Gale (11 April) I feel obliged to contest cer- tain points which he made in that article. The taxes which Mr Gale complained of, on...
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COMPETITION
The SpectatorNo. 602: Self-praise Set by Joyce Johnson: 'Scorn not the sonnet' wrote Wordsworth, and proceeded to laud it in sonnet form. Competitors are invited to contribute to the...
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Crossword 1427
The SpectatorI Get rid of the receiver for protection? (7) 5 Falcons has e their favourite pursuits (7) 9 'The never taste of death but once' (J. Cursor) (7) 10 It happened when one wrote in...
Chess 488
The SpectatorPHILIDOR P. C. Thomson (1st Prize, ACM. 1940). White to play and mate in two moves; solution next week. Solution to No. 487 (Barclay and Sweeney...