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PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK
The Spectator`Or was it just a horrible dream?' S ir Hal Miller, a former Tory MP, accused Sir Patrick Mayhew, when Attor- ney General, of having tried to prevent evi- dence coming to court...
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POLITICS
The SpectatorThe press may be squared, but the middle classes are quite unprepared SIMON HEFFER Welfare reform is urgent not because it is morally right, but because it is economical- ly...
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DIARY ALAN RUSBRIDGER
The SpectatorI t has always surprised me how few Trot- skyists read the Tatler. Pick up any maga- zine of the far Left and you will find page after page of impenetrable articles about the...
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ANOTHER VOICE
The SpectatorThe people are angry with the Cleethorpes sextuplets. An official policy of eugenics looms CHARLES MOORE Few of us know the truth about Jan and Jean and Susan and Sid....
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WE HAVE CHANGED, NOT THE QUEEN
The SpectatorJames Buchan argues that the Queen is under the attack which should properly be directed at her ministers: if Britain is decadent it's the politicians' fault FORTY YEARS ago...
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SAFE HAVENS FOR THE UN
The SpectatorCharles Glass on how America's new plan for Bosnia will protect every nationality save the one under greatest threat Sarajevo THE WINTER snows of Bosnia have melted, and the...
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THE RULE OF RACIAL PURITY
The SpectatorJapan is celebrating the imminent marriage of Crown Prince Naruhito. But the Japanese monarchy is nothing to celebrate, says Ian Buruma UNTIL HER retirement a few years ago, an...
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A DEFEATIST SURVIVOR
The SpectatorStephen Glover reports with fondness on the twists and turns of Lord Deedes' first 80 years WHEN THE Falklands were invaded one Friday in April 1982, Bill Deedes, editor of...
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STATE OF SICKNESS
The SpectatorTheodore Dalrymple confesses that he and his fellow NHS doctors are principally responsible for creating a nation of bogus invalids NOT LONG AGO, I was consulted by a patient...
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Mind your language
The SpectatorCONSERVATIVE Prime Ministers seem to attract linguistic peculiarities. Mr Major says wunt for want, an idiolect unknown in Brixton, or in Worcester Park. Sir Edward Heath's...
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THE CAR THAT BROKE BL
The SpectatorRoss Clark attends a very special meeting of Britain's least glamorous motoring club IN THE ANNALS of recent history no year has quite so unfortunate a reputation as 1973....
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One hundred years ago
The SpectatorIt is cold comfort for English agricultur- ists to hear that agriculture in America is almost equally depressed. In the East- ern States, the farmers complain that they are...
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AND ANOTHER THING
The SpectatorA stampede of water buffaloes on the American campus PAUL JOHNSON I n New York I find people plunged in angry gloom about the Clinton presidency: `Even worse than we'd...
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CITY AND SUBURBAN
The SpectatorKutz a star part for Portillo, round the bend in ever-decreasing circles CHRISTOPHER FILDES A one of its measures of economy, the Government is spending £75 million to attract...
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Pointless disappointment
The SpectatorSir: I am very sad and disappointed to see that Three Pointless Things To Do This Week has obviously been dropped. I liked to read and do the Pointless Things. Catherine von...
One in the eye
The SpectatorSir: Judith Cook is so miffed at my review of her Marlowe novel that she bothers your readers with a list of her publications as a theatre historian to demonstrate how wrong I...
Lookalike
The SpectatorSir: Lois Blythe writes about a certain John Major whom she evidently holds in high regard (Letters, 22 May). Whoever he is, he must be quite a persuasive person, not least in...
Dream car
The SpectatorSir: Would your readers care to join me to complaining to the Office of Fair Trading about the iniquitously high price of Rolls- Royce cars? I have long fancied a Rolls but...
Googling
The SpectatorSir: I feel rather like a batsman who has faced a ferocious over while lolling about at the non-striker's end. Frank Keating bowled some fast balls at me (Sport, 22 May) but it...
LETTERS Absolute Pilger
The SpectatorSir: William Shawcross's article (Wore bul- lets than ballots', 22 May) predictably mir- rors British and US policy on Cambodia. It contains familiar disinformation. Shawcross...
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BOOKS
The SpectatorCulture has gone to the Cats Hilary Mantel WHAT HENRY JAMES KNEW AND OTHER ESSAYS ON WRITERS by Cynthia Ozick Cape, £7 2.99, pp. 322 H ere is a spectacle — sad, but extremely...
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Why the roof fell in
The SpectatorAndro Linklater ABLAZE: THE STORY OF CHERNOBYL by Piers Paul Read Seeker & Warburg, f16.99, pp. 478 I n his classic study of witchcraft in the Sudan, Professor Evans Pritchard...
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The way quite a lot of us live now
The SpectatorAnne Chisholm A SPANISH LOVER by Joanna Trollope Bloomsbury, £14.99, pp. 314 W ith her six previous novels of con- temporary middle-class English manners and morals, Joanna...
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In my beginning is my end
The SpectatorMary Warnock LIFE'S DOMINION: AN ARGUMENT ABOUT ABORTION AND EUTHANASIA by Ronald Dworkin HarperCollins, £17.50, pp. 272 R onald Dworkin is supremely well- qualified to pick...
The Apprentice House, Styal
The SpectatorNot so long ago. Your grandmother's mother could tell what crossed the young girls' eyes into their escape routes, what came nibbling from the attic where the oats for the...
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A sadder and a tougher man
The SpectatorJane Gardam IMAGINATION OF THE HEART: THE LIFE OF WALTER DE LA MARE by Theresa Whistler Duckworth, f25, pp. 490 COLLECTED RHYMES AND VERSES and COLLECLED POEMS by Walter de la...
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But not the passions of the slaves
The SpectatorJohn Spurling CROSSING THE RIVER by Caryl Phillips Bloomsbury, £14.99, pp. 237 C rossing the River begins with the remorse of a West African farmer who has sold his three...
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Suspicion torment my soul
The SpectatorAnita Brookner SECOND SPRING by Max Egremont Hamish Hamilton, £14.99, pp. 275 M ax Egremont is a misleadingly urbane writer who deals with various forms of betrayal, usually in...
Fast falls the Eventide
The SpectatorHarriet Waugh THE DYING OF THE LIGHT by Michael Dibdin Faber, £9.99, pp. 151 M ichael Dibdin writes comedies, whether they be detective novels, starring his...
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Outside the Circle
The SpectatorI worked through all your tricks. I slit the sleeves, I tugged fine strings which joined the handkerchiefs. The disappearing girl was always there Crammed in compartments false...
The active research for truth
The SpectatorMolly Keane MAUNA by Penny Perrick Sinclair-Stevenson, f14.99, pp. 275 he garbage of Irish history, well fiction- alised, makes a colourful background to this story of the...
Donning a helmet and pyjamas
The SpectatorSimon Heiler FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME by David Lemmon Pelham, £16.99, pp. 320 BETRAYAL : THE STRUGGLE FOR CRICKET'S SOUL br G ra e m e Wright H. F. & G. Witherby, £16.99, pp....
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Tiny's hand is finally frozen
The SpectatorAnthony Howard TINY ROWLAND: A REBEL TYCOON by Tom Bower Heinemann, £16.99, pp. 659 T he only previous biography of Tiny Rowland was castigated in these pages (The Spectator 2...
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ARTS
The SpectatorArt Never the twain shall meet ... But Giles Auty feels both sides of the art divide are entitled to fairness in funding A mong the texts about art I have read or re-read in...
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Sculpture
The SpectatorLocal hero Bruce Boucher welcomes the opening of the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds L ast year the Henry Moore Foundation was engaged in an disagreeable squabble with the late...
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Architecture
The SpectatorDeserted Bastions: Historic Naval and Military Architecture (RIBA Heinz Gallery, till 5 June) Recharging our batteries Alan Powers T ristram Shandy's Uncle Toby is a char-...
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Theatre
The SpectatorJuno and the Paycock (Albery) The Showman (Almeida) Glorious Juno Sheridan Morley T he surprising thing about Juno and the Paycock, now in a savage and masterly pro- duction...
A monthly selection of forthcoming events recommended by The Spectator's
The Spectatorregular critics EXHIBITIONS Tony Bevan, Whitechapel Art Gallery, El. Described inevitably as `one of the leading British painters of his generation' in gallery blurb. See if...
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Cinema
The SpectatorPassenger 57 (`15', selected cinemas) Nowhere to Run (`15', selected cinemas) Disaster movies Vanessa Letts assenger 57 promotes itself as an action adventure/disaster...
Television
The SpectatorTiny problem Martyn Harris here is a passage in Evelyn Waugh's Scoop about a doyen of foreign correspon - dents who is on the scene for every war , famine and uprising,...
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High life
The SpectatorHeartbreak hotel Taki T o paraphrase Grouch() Marx, I never enjoy hearing someone's got a financial problem, but in the case of the Aga Khan I think I will make an exception....
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Low life
The SpectatorOver the odds Jeffrey Bernard S ometimes weather forecasters end their summary by saying, 'There is a risk of thunder.' Why risk? Thunder is music to my ears. In Andalucia...
Long life
The SpectatorThe ghosts of Ebury Street Nigel Nicolson T wo weeks ago I visited my birthplace , 182 Ebury Street, to unveil a plaque by pulling aside a little pinafore of a curtain...
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REERUMERBIRIUMMIM
The SpectatorWHILE we understand that the Spectator's is a church so broad as to make the general synod seem positively sect-like by compari- son, there are some activities which we guess to...
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Rhapsodic
The SpectatorRaymond Keene JUDITH POLGAR has turned in an excel- lent performance in the 'Dos Hermanas' tournament in Seville. Her style is a dynamic, attacking one, heavily reliant on the...
COMPETITION
The SpectatorImperial lines Jaspistos IN COMPETITION NO. 1780 you were given this opening quatrain and invited to carry on in the same strain: What is the meaning of Empire Day? Why do...
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CROSSWORD
The SpectatorA first prize of £20 and a bottle of Graham's Malvedos 1979 Vintage Port for the first correct solution opened on 14 June, with two runners-up prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers,...
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SPECTATOR SPORT
The SpectatorBorder of steel Frank Keating IT IS GOOD to have a genuine all-time hall-of-famer among us for the last time. It was touching to be near Allan Border's glowing and satisfied...
YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED
The SpectatorDear Mary.. . Q. While I always enjoy reading your solu- tions to problems, and quite liked the one you produced for someone's 'generally marvellous daily who enjoys her gin'...