Pespite the success the Government have had in persuadi ng a large section of the British public that their econoZ i i ie Policies are working, the slide of the pound continues....

P resident Giscard d'Estaing returned from the United States and proposed a French Military intervention. This was greeted with varying degrees of scorn and derision by the r...

Small minds at Motherwell John Grigg The Scottish National Party is now holding its forty-second annual conference at Motherwell, and nobody could deny that it has come a long...

At the end of last week the Liberal stagemanagers reduced to two the number of Kill s required to put forward a candidate for the leadership. This was the interpretatio n Put...

Get them fell in Auberon Waugh I sPent last week as a National Health patient in the local Taunton hospital with a painful and undignified affliction called a fistula, e'n...

David Bonavia Hongkong The confusion sown in Chinese minds by recent events in Peking showed itself poignantly in Hongkong this month, when tiny Marxist splinter groups...

Kuldip Nayar New When five million H indus crossed into I and an equal number of Muslims into Pa P ti. ; stan in the wake of the subcontinent's Parh tion nearly three decades...

Patrick Cockburn In every real sense Lebanon is now partitioned. It is well on its way to joining Cyprus a hundred miles away as the second eastern Mediterranean country within...

Leslie Finer Washington '"Y own layman's fashion, ignorant as I 1 .1" of the complex technical arguments, I aVe alW aYS had a high regard for every new f ieneration of aircraft...

John Biggs-Davison The official Opposition has the duty to oppose the Executive but to oppose responsibly. It is the alternative government. Against those who work and conspire...

Patrick Cosgrave As a result of all the conjecture preceding publication of Sir Harold Wilson's resignation honours list, the wider public has become acquainted with the name...

Jim Higgins Contrary to myth, the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers is rather democratic. That bold statement, as is usual with such statements, requires immediate...

Peter York Earlier this month Margaret Thatcher had her hair re-styled. Her familiar waves and the upswept 'wings' on either side disappeared to be replaced by an altogether...

James Hughes-Onslow Some children may be saddened to learn that Hamleys, the Regent Street toy shop, w as taken over this month by the Debenhaill chain store empire. But it is...

Hugh Macpherson Any sufferer whose intestines have been invaded by salmonella would readily testify to what a devilish bug the little fellow can be. But not even Beelzebub...

that extraordinary trip to see the a 4h ah at _ St Moritz made by Messrs Barber 0 - 1 . 11 c 1 walker in the wake of the great oil crisis 0 - ,,, 19 7, 3 . After presumably...

John Vaizey For seventy years or so, from 1880 to 1950. Cambridge economics dominated the British intellectual scene. The London School of Economics after 1930 began its career...

Can sterling be 'Levered' up? Nicholas Davenport The sinking pound is no laughing matter (We must keep it out of the pages of Auberon Waugh.) I know that some people think it...

Sir : Your otherwise admirable editorial on 15 May errs in accusing the Conservative Opposition of 'deplorable silence' over the 'cod war'. Please allow me to put the record...

Sir: Though Sheila Donaldson (8 May) has never heard of Conservative Action for Electoral Reform, this has not prevented her from attributing to us the feat of both manifesting...

Sir: I am not quite clear of the logic behind the remarks about myself in your 'Notebook' on 15 May. I understand it to be that because I write in favour of sexual freedom in a...

of Mr Auber° r) Waugh's suggestion of attacking the Ms ° Ryland by putting firecrackers in letter boxes. Not only does this smack of viole 0 c e. but it will help Ryland in his...

May) that Lord Brimelow, lately head of the Forw eig h ti ; °. f fiee, has chosen to take the Labour '"'1 3 In the House of Lords. You note that although 5 Lord Brimelow is a...

—ouberon Waugh A r b eh ard House, Pentre Lane, er gavenny, Monmouthshire s E il tle atiOnal i StS id ea F ew will have been surprised that the hi e a of creating a...

New Statesman and the Spectator is the sheer undergraduate silliness of some of its contributors even when they are established authors of unquestioned ability. A good example...

biography of Princess 'Stephanie Hohenloe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfuerst (nee Richter in Vienna), who was resident in London from 1932 to 1939. It would be of great help and...

Out of the abyss Alan Brien Into Unknown England Edited by Peter Keating (Fontana £1.50, University of Manchester Press E5.95) From the Mouths of Men George Ewart Evans (Faber...

Max Beloff T he Creighton Report Hunter Davies ■ naMish Hamilton £4.95) 'Ail eleven-year-old boy was taken into eLeatIcil care last ni g ht because his parents "aye refused...

George Gale The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Volume IX. Transcribed and edited by Robert Latham and William Mathews (G. Bell and Sons E8.50) This is the last volume of text of this...

'This book is his personal view of the last 40 years of world affairs, centred on The Times but not confined to it, and a good story it is for those with a taste of history and...

willia m Douglas Home How The Rich Lived Edward Lucierruth and Celestine Oars (Paddington Press 28.95) Was this the scene? Co-authors having ncb with publisher—'We want to do...

Duncan Fallowell Willard and his Bowling Trophies Richard Brautigan (Cape £2.50) The Poisoned Kiss Joyce Carol Oates (Gollancz £3.50) The first thing to be said about Richard...

Benny Green Dancing in the Dark Howard Dietz (Bantam Paperbacks 75p) No doubt it was shamelessly predictable of Howard Dietz to have entitled his autobiography Dancing in the...

Pat Rogers The Baroque Age in England Judith Hook (Thames & Hudson £8.50) Talk of an English baroque has the specious air of paradox. Like the Cornish Riviera, it suggests an...

Arianna Stassinopoulos Zeus and Hera. Archetypal Image of Father, Husband and Wife C. Kerenyi (Routledge and Kegan Paul E7.75) It is impossible to analyse the stomach of a...

Philip Mason The Face of Battle John Keega ri (Jonathan Cape £6.50) It would be a pity if this book were labelle d 'military history 'and read only by milirarY historians. It...

A little good music Gerrit Henry New York -e Antoinette Perry Awards—or Tony 8. wards, as they are affectionately known— • Broadway's answer to Hollywood's scars. This year,...

The great performance Michael Kennedy 'Quiet stance on the rostrum . . . economy of gesture .. . strong impression of restraint ... rigid self-control . . . disliking all forms...

When the master dies, much is revealed through the behaviour of the dikiples. Will 1 1 3 ,v ed „ t , - uP forces, hidden animosities erupt ? the corporate enterprise gradually...

All at sea Kenneth Hurren Noah by Andre Obey (Chichester Festival Theatre) Confusions by Alan Ayckbourn (Apollo) Though Andre Obey's play, Noah, was evidently written...

Trumpery ace Ian Cameron Many of the cinema's most sublime moments have come during musicals. If ! were feeling rash enough to attempt a definition of cinematic beauty, many of...

On target John mcEwen Michael Sandie is showing drawings at Pei iei'tY Samuel's (till 11 June) and, mostly related, etchings at Bernard Jacobson (till l une). Sandie has not...

Heavyweights Jeffrey Bernard Last week! was just too late to pass on David Coleman's best ever to those of you who may have missed it. Uttered at the beginning of the UEFA...