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Tommy this and tommy that
The SpectatorThe pay rise for the services announced by Mr Callaghan Ott Tuesday is probably the best that could have been expected from this government, which is to say that it is not ,...
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-Political Commentary
The SpectatorLes secrets du Colonel B Ferdinand Mount Sometimes the law looks silly because it is silly. Sometimes the law looks silly because -policemen or judges are acting silly. And...
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Notebook
The SpectatorI never met Richard Cecil, but he' was bY all accounts an extremely attractive man a nd someone who could command extrao rdinary loyalty and affection. It is a pity L that the...
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Another voice
The SpectatorJumping up and down Auberon Waugh Most unexpectedly, Saturday Night Fever arrived in Taunton last week. Goodness knows what the Senior Citizens were supposed to make of the...
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Italy after Moro
The Spectatorpeter Nichols Rome There must be man-traps throughout Italy containing the bones, rusted remains of Portable typewriters and plastic cases for anion cards belonging to all...
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Carrillo's present from Russia
The SpectatorWilliam Chislett Madrid Santia g o Carrillo, the secretary- g eneral of the Spanish Communist party, which last week at its ninth con g ress (the first le g al one in Spain...
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France's bombe surprise
The SpectatorSam White Paris Well, have the French got the neutron 'bomb or haven't they? Put this way, the 'opportunities for teasing answers are end less and well-nigh irresistible, as...
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Panama and paraquat
The SpectatorNicholas von Hoffman Washington In the last couple of days before the vote on the accursed Panama Canal treaty, the mass Media went slightly crackers on the subject. The...
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Dangerous secrecy
The SpectatorPatrick Cosgrave Listeners to the Parliament show on radio (or television) may have got the quite false impression that any old MP may get up at any old time and ask any old...
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Our uncivilised museums
The SpectatorJo Grimond It is time we stopped the competitive stuffing of our public galleries and museums With pictures, porcelain, furniture, etc. at the expense of the tax payers. It is...
Hemlock offer
The SpectatorMichael Becket British Leyland's rights issue of shares must be the most uninviting since the hemlock offer to Socrates. Even the company went out of its way to warn...
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Going metric
The SpectatorGeoffrey Wheatcroft Three years ago Lord Orr-Ewing, then Chairman of the Metrication Board, said that 'The country is now approaching a critical stage. . . it has always been...
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The rise of small businesses
The SpectatorStewart Black If the popular press was to be believed, the 'real interest' for everyone in Mr Healey's Budget was the size of the concessions he was expected to make on income...
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In the City
The SpectatorGold and the dollar Nicholas Davenport It was said of my old friend Dick Crossman that his diaries revealed the extraordinary naïveté of an academic confronted with...
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The Bevan libel action
The SpectatorSir: I have never before written about the Bevan libel action against the Spectator in 1957. It is a distasteful subject in that all of the following came out of it badly: The...
Sir: Lord Goodman suggests that Auberon Waugh's 'recollections of a
The Spectatorconversation five or six years old describing an incident fifteen years before that' may be unreliable: on the contrary. The conversation took place over lunch in Soho on 3 May,...
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Back Ian Smith
The SpectatorSir: I read Stephen Glover's piece 'Chameleons in Rhodesia' (15 April) with considerable interest and it seems clear to me that the Western Powers' failure to support the...
The Russian prisoners
The SpectatorSir: Ms Gainham's rambling letter (15 April) would be charming in its illogicality if it were not so morally debased. In joining the ranks of those whose attacks on Stalin are...
The greatest?
The SpectatorSir: In the Spectator of 1 April you devoted no less than three articles to the season's international rugby scene. In none of them was there any mention of Andy Irvine, an...
Ritual slaughter
The SpectatorSir: In your editorial of 1 April you express misgivings over the method of slaughtering livestock exported to France. Such concern is praiseworthy, but you are guilty of...
Princess Margaret
The SpectatorSir: You can write as many sycophantic, mealy-mouthed leader columns as you like, but your correspondent, Mr Alan Walsh, IS right. The majority of people in this countrY have...
Sir: Bias and exaggeration are of course the stock in
The Spectatortrade of historians, even of such brilliant and admirable ones as Oxford's Regius Professor. But to call my recent review of Peter Townsend's Time and Chance, which dealt...
Less Greek
The SpectatorSir: Me poor Greek ignorant. You big English egghead. You pliss say to learned Swiss Alastair Forbes no spend so much time thinking of royals but more time learning write short...
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Books
The SpectatorA sort of loyalty J. Enoch Powell ⢠History of Rome Michael Grant (Weidenfeld £12.50) The history of Rome; yes, but which Rome? Ab urbe condita in 753 BC to the formal...
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On the brain
The SpectatorAlan Watkins Sex Law Tony Honore (Duckworth E8.95) Dr A.M. Honore is fifty-seven, a Fellow of All Souls and Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford. His previous publications...
Crossed-out
The SpectatorRonald Duncan The Composition of the Four Quartets Helen Gardner (Faber E9.50) Has the title any musical connotations? I think not. Eliot corresponded with Stravinsky; but I...
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Sinuous rills
The SpectatorLynn Cardiff A World of Naturalists Joseph Kastner (John Murrary £7.95) Joseph Kastner's World of Naturalists is the New World of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; his...
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Slender stuff
The SpectatorBenny Green Sherlock Holmes and his Creator Trevor H. Hall (Duckworth £7.95) Evidently there is no end to books on, by, for and about Sherlock Holmes, whose bib liography...
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Slow and sure
The SpectatorPaul Ableman The Family David Plante (Victor Gollancz E5.60) Turner, asked to provide a sketch that would give an impression of the size of a man-of-war, took a plain board and...
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Children's books
The SpectatorGrandmammas Mary Kenny It is a standing joke among those who mock social workers and the child development industry that there is a book called The Dis appearing Grandmother...
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Childsplay
The SpectatorEmma Tennant From Spring to Spring Alison Uttley (Faber £3.50) Wild Ghost Chase D. J. Enright (Chatto & Windus £2.95) Jackanory: Jonny Briggs and the Ghost Joan Eadington...
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Arts
The SpectatorHome and abroad movies John Wells The Stud (ABC, Fulham Road) The Men Who Loved Women (Gala Royal, Marble Arch) The wife of a prominent newspaper proprietor appearing in a...
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Theatre
The SpectatorLast love Ted Whitehead Oen Juan Comes Back from the War (Cottesloe) On the Out (Bush) Impending death weakens our interest in economics â unless what we're dying of is want...
Television
The SpectatorSwitched-off Richard Ingrams After my rather lofty comments about Tony Garnett last tveek I thought the least I could do would be tune in to the latest episode of his Law and...
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Art
The SpectatorWhom indeed? John McEwen On the face of it you could hardly have two more opposed looking exhibitions than the Arts Council sponsored 'Art for Whom?' (Serpentine till 14 May)...
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Garden cooking
The SpectatorBlessed leek Manka Hanbury Ten ison One of the vegetables I have most respect for (especially at this time of the year when the choice is getting a bit thin) is the leek. I...
End piece
The SpectatorClever dick Jeffrey Bernard The nearer we get to the Derby the more pieces we find to fit into the puzzle. Last Saturday, Ryan Price's colt Whitstead â by Morston out of a...