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SWALLOWING THE BILL
The SpectatorThere now remains only parliamentary and royal formalities to be concluded before the Industrial Relations Bill is enacted into law; and, although we may doubt whether the Act...
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POLITICAL COMMENTARY HUGH MACPHERSON
The SpectatorIt is well known that Mr Edward He tth disapproves of journalists speculating on the political future—perhaps a little surprisingly since seadogs are notoriously superstitious....
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VIEW FROM THE GALLERY SALLY VINCENT
The SpectatorParliamentary Privilege is one of the little bonuses you get when you become an MP. It means, crudely, that your freedom of speech, while being the same as everybody else's, is...
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Who's the authentic voice?
The SpectatorBut if Lady Cromer is to be forgiven for her dotty gushings, what are we to make of our long-serving and most experienced man in Paris, Mr Christopher Soames? He is not at all...
Permissibly dropped brick
The SpectatorB rand-new ambassadors ought always to be a llowed to drop at least one brick, and their Wives (particularly if they, the wives, are Pleasant and attractive and prepared to...
Room for commonsense
The SpectatorIn order to reduce the risk of a man going Mad, men rely upon machines and Mechanical systems to operate what are grandly called 'fail-safe' procedures so that a nuclear...
Grossly improper
The SpectatorIs that what you are telling the French, Mr Soames? Naughty boy. You know it isn't true. You really ought not to tell the French things like that; they might think you were...
. THE 'SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
The SpectatorIt was reassuring that, when the North American Air Defence Command, one of its clerks having fed the wrong bit of tape into a telex machine (which is a thing I have done more...
Dam bad show
The Spectator'A few weeks before ground was broken for the high dam in 1960, the distinguished Egyptian hydrologist, Dr Abdel Aziz Ahmed, warned the Institute of Civil Engineers in London...
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THE GOSPELS
The SpectatorThe Gospels according to. . . H. R. TREVOR-ROPER When I accepted an invitation from the Editor of the SPECTATOR to review Dr Dodd's life of Christ, I did not think that my...
DIARY OF THE YEAR
The SpectatorWednesday 17 February: arriving in London, the chairman of Lockheed warned that his sir- line customers had given only nine days for a decision on the RB 211. Rudi Dutschke,...
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THE CIVIL SERVICE-2
The SpectatorThe great management hoax C. H. SISSON It is the pretension, precisely, of the elements now most influential in the Civil Service that that body is being managed with close-...
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PERSONAL COLUMN
The SpectatorMen are we and must grieve DENTS BROGAN There is a great deal of in-and-out fighting going on not only in the artificial sporting club ring in the House of Commons, but in the...
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THE SPEC'TATO REVIEWcd'BOOK
The SpectatorRichard Cobb on the Paris riots John Bayley on studies in German literature Reviews by Michael Jaffe, J. W. Burrow R. M. Hartwell and Auberon Waugh G. R. Elton on the Reign of...
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THE SPECTATOR'S £500 NEW WRITING PRIZE
The SpectatorAn annual prize of £500 will be awarded by the SPECTATOR to whoever in the opinion of the judges, submits the best piece of original, unpublished, new writing of not less than...
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Auberort Waugh on the rest of the iceberg
The SpectatorA Confederate General from Big Sur Richard Brautigan (Cape £1.50) History of a Nation of One Jecon Gregory (Michael Joseph £1.75) tA Cure for Cancer Michael Moorcock (Allison...
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J. W. Burrow on Marx
The SpectatorMarx's Grundrisse Edited by David McLellan (Macmillan £2.50) 'The most fundamental of all Marx's writings'; 'the centrepiece of Marx's thought.' Such editorial fanfares...
Michael Jaff6 on Raphael
The SpectatorFor a man of twenty-eight, brought up in fin de siècle England to admire the Pre-Raphael- ites, it was hardy, almost foolhardy, to attempt a monograph on Raphael. In June 1906,...
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R. M. Hartwell on industrial poverty
The SpectatorMr Inglis has written a long, straight- forward, undocumented and highly conven- tional social history of the industrial revolu- tion, concentrating on the poor and on attitudes...
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John Bayley on studies in German literature
The Spectator'German', wrote Pushkin, 'is the only liter- ature in which the critics preceded the authors.' Pushkin in fact knew very little about it, but his perception has point : since...
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Richard Cobb on the Paris riots
The SpectatorPrelude to Revolution: France in May 1968 Daniel Singer (Cape £3.95) This is a very modish book. The author, who writes in Basic Marxisto-American ('When History Quickens its...
THE POSTAL STRIKE
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Solution next week Solution to Crossword 1469. Across: 1 Bloater
The Spectatorpaste 9 Greengage 10 Avast 11 Enamel 12 Addendum 13 Runs in 15 Descants 18 Damag- ing 19 Arnold 21 Mistaken 23 Passes 26 Esker 27 Extricate 28 Testimonials. Down: 1 Bugbear 2...
Crossword
The SpectatorNo. 1470 DAEDALUS No prize is offered this week. The solution will appear in next week's issue. Across 1 Fodder instead of time. Cap that! (6) 4 Where one might suitably...
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• ARTS • LETTERS • MONEY. LEISURE THEATRE
The SpectatorIngrid and others KENNETH HURREN `Lucky devil,' remarked a friend whom I met last week on my way to the new Ingrid Bergman play, and I knew that he was not referring only to...
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CINEMA
The SpectatorNothing but the worst CHRISTOPHER HUDSON Mediocre films are the worst of all. Bad films a critic can get up and walk out of, but med- iocre ones he feels in duty bound to sit...
TELEVISION
The SpectatorRound the bend Patrick SKENE CATLING Only a little earlier, James Mossman had devoted some of Review (snc 2) to help to get viewers in the mood for Cook. Mossman presented him...
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ART
The SpectatorEthos and Andy EVAN AN,THONY It's been a shattering week for me: I've had to change my mind— twice. I didn't care for the L. S. Lowry exhibi- tion as much as I antici- pated I...
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Post Office economy
The SpectatorSir: The protracted strike by the postal workers is largely the result of the present rationalisation stud- ies being made by the board of the Post Office Corporation. The loss...
The right of reply
The SpectatorSir: Interesting that the unamiable Mr Amis rushes to admit that he has published statements intended to be damaging in your pages and since it is me alone, that he is cry- ing...
Waugh wounds
The SpectatorSir: Whether as the result of a printers' imp, or through some Sporting attempt at improvement on your own part, eight mutilations of the text made my review of Nabokov's Mary...
EEC
The SpectatorSir: Hugh Macpherson (20 Feb- ruary) tells us that the British must not vote in a referendum on EEC entry, because this might set a pre- cedent for rule by referendum, so...
Chomsky's 'proofs '
The SpectatorSir : Shirley Letwin (13 February) believes Chomsky has proved no- thing 'because no scientific theory offers "proof" '. This is a misunder- standing of the nature of science....
Quite a packet
The SpectatorSir : I am not a traditionalist, nor am I taking sides, but in view of our current blockade I felt you and your readers might care to know that, whilst recently sifting through...
Staunch reader
The SpectatorSir : My subscription to your jour- nal coincided precisely with your own arrival and I therefore have no basis upon which to judge the good or harm you may have caused the...
Sir: I like to see the SPECTATOR set Out its
The Spectatorviews on the present Common Market application so forthrightly and unambiguously. I only hope your opposition does not become so much of an obsession as did Biafra during the...
Unclear Skinflint
The SpectatorSir: In the absence of your usual weekly competition (suspended. I hope, because of the postal strike rather than killed off) I am pre- pared to offer a sporting guinea (£1.05)...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The SpectatorLetters from Professor Charles Wilson, Geoffrey Sampson, Peter Paterson, Auberon Waugh, T. Francis Glasson, D. B. Taylor and others. Too many Town Halls Sir: You are right to...
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Sir: As a result of my recent letter to you,
The SpectatorI have been involved re- peatedly over the last few days in heady and abstruse discussions (not entirely to my taste) about the nature of the supernatural. In the course of...
Sir: If John's gospel is not the work of an
The Spectatoreye-witness, or is closely de- rived from one, I should like to know how the following 'undesign- ed coincidences' (clear marks of historical truth?) can be explained away. The...
The Gospels and the professor
The SpectatorSir: One or two of your corre- spondents refer to the papyrus manuscripts as though they were all negligible fragments. But some of them are quite extensive; one, dated about AD...
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MONEY Crisis 'Down Under'
The SpectatorNICHOLAS DAVENPORT Two weeks ago the Council of the Stock Exchange called upon their broker members to disclose their transactions in Australian shares and their up-to-date...
'JULIETTE'S WEEKLY FROLIC
The SpectatorMy recovery campaign came to a sticky, futile end when the heavens opened last week and the only selection to brave the going, finished fourth in the wrong race. As the...
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London Weekend Television
The SpectatorNot altogether to my surprise Dr Tom Margerison has departed and the matter of the succession has been resolved with the welcome arrival of Rupert Murdoch and his men in...
Mr Sam Wanamaker
The SpectatorIt has been drawn to my attention that my remarks concerning Mr Sam Wanamaker under the heading 'The Globe Theatre' in our issue of 6 February have been under- stood to reflect...
Black box conspiracy
The SpectatorThough the Confederation of British Industry is in favour, on virtually any terms, of Common Market entry it is very far from the truth to say that most of its members prefer...
SKINFLINT'S CITY DIARY
The SpectatorXanadu Centre I have had a soft spot for Lonrho since they took over (by a share exchange) a few shares my mother had held for a long time in Anglo-Ceylon and.General Estates....
THE GOOD LIFE Pamela VANDYKE PRICE
The SpectatorThe British tend to be spectator sportsmen. 'Games' to them are either an indispensable adjunct to life, or an entertainment. Look at all those games people play on television...
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CLIVE GAMMON
The SpectatorHeaven knows, salmon fishermen have had enough to worry about in the past decade. First the virus disease, ulcerative dermal necrosis (IJDN), started to kill the fish in the...
PETER QUINCE
The SpectatorThe hunt had its annual meet just outside our village the other day. Now, in the matter of hunting the fox, the great majority of countrymen today are not at all well- informed....
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NOTES FROM THE. UNDERGROUND_
The SpectatorTONY PALMER One of the recurring difficulties facing arts graduates leaving university is what to do with themselves and their apparent qualifica- tions. If you reject the...
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Spectator Hotel Guide
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