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Portrait of the week
The SpectatorT he miners' strike entered its 16th week, still the main news story. Mrs Thatcher made a direct and unheeded appeal to the 120,000 miners on strike to return to work, Mr...
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Politics
The SpectatorSaving the BBC S carcely a day has passed since May 1979 when Mrs Thatcher's Government has not been indicted for 'hurting the poorest people in our society'. On Tuesday, for...
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Ballot rigging
The SpectatorT he Government's defeat in the House of Lords last week over the issue of compulsory postal ballots in union elections was a characteristic minor example of Mrs Thatcher's...
Numbers racket
The SpectatorT n his autobiography, Malcolm X, the 1 American gangster who became a black power leader in prison, recounts how he graduated from petty drug peddling to `running the numbers'...
Johnsonian rebuke
The SpectatorT he Spectator's architectural correspon- dent, Gavin Stamp, won a considerable coup at the public inquiry into the Mansion House Square development on Wednesday. Re produced a...
Notes
The SpectatorM rs Thatcher claims a success at the EEC summit at Fontainebleau. Yet the main result of the summit is that the spending of the EEC — and Britain's con- tribution to that...
Killing the Swedes
The SpectatorD ritain's decision not even to attempt to reduce sulphur dioxide emissions by 30 per cent before 1993 is a shaming one; and the arguments used to justify it are specious. If...
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Another voice
The SpectatorPop goes the weasel Auberon Waugh T he Duke of Gloucester waited ten years before making his maiden speech in the House of Lords. Perhaps it has taken him that amount of time...
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Diary
The SpectatorD isappointment bordering on dismay gripped my household with the arrival of last week's issue of Country Life. In place of the full-page engagement photograph which...
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Embryos and lettuce
The SpectatorJoseph Santamaria Melbourne W riting about in vitro fertilisation in the Spectator (30 April, 1983), James Hughes-Onslow asked of Melbourne's Monash University test-tube baby...
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Rioting for tradition
The SpectatorFrank Johnson Paris itons will be broadly aware that a start- lingly r ingly huge march took place in this city on Sunday over something unclear to do with education. That...
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Press polyptych
The SpectatorChristopher Hitchens Washington mailer than a man's hand, they say, this L./little polyp in Ronald Reagan's derriere. But already, we know more about it than perhaps we want...
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The last Palestinian
The SpectatorE. C. Hodgkin suppose he was the last of the Palestin- ians,' someone said as, on a Monday afternoon earlier this month, we followed the coffin of Musa Alami from Aqsa mos- que...
One hundred years ago
The SpectatorWe suppose that, on the whole, Mr. Hughes is right; and that for lads who can 'rough it' easily, and like out-of- door life, and have the ability to utilise labour,...
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Filipino pressure
The SpectatorPhilip Jacobson Manila S ome attribute it to powerful new drugs, others to a remarkable triumph of mind over matter. The truth probably lies somewhere in between, but nobody...
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Le marketing tie-in
The SpectatorMurray Sayle Londres A s I write, 32 of the 90-odd starters in the Observer Singlehanded Transatlan- tic Race (OSTAR) are still at sea, while two are unaccounted for, although...
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Palau's answers
The SpectatorAndrew Gimson W hat more irritating subject than reli- gion? Those not provoked to rage by the mere mention of it, will very soon be annoyed if they think you are being too...
The Spectator
The Spectatoris looking for someone to sell advertising and to help with the marketing of the magazine. A love of selling is most important. Previous ex- perience would be a help but is not...
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Glastonbury Tories
The SpectatorAndrew Brown S o many, I had not thought death had undone so many. Under the marijuana fog of a summer evening a crowd flowed through an African city of tents and stalls...
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Public relations
The SpectatorA Thatcher suicide? Paul Johnson he public relations of the Thatcher min- i. istry are the most inept of any govern- ment I have known, and they grow steadily worse. The only...
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City and Suburban
The SpectatorWho's a fraud? H ere is how to silence a City luncheon room with one easily-dropped brick. When last, you ask, did anyone in or around this part of the world g o down for seven...
Gower power
The Spectatort this point, those lunchers who are still in the room will a g ree that your q ues- tions are g rowin g in ur g ency. The re g ula- tion of the City is becomin g more formal,...
Lutine Bill
The SpectatorF raud, of course, is one thin g , and scan- dal another — but q uite fri g htenin g enou g h, at that. It afforded the frisson of that autumn day, two years back, in Bri g...
Musical chairs
The SpectatorT he revolution at. Schroders now brin g s a new chairman to join the new chief executive. The Earl of Airlie is transferrin g to the Palace, as Lord Chamberlain, and hands over...
Jury on trial
The SpectatorL ord Roskill heads the Fraud Trials L./Committee, briefed (in resonant le g al En g lish) 'to consider what chan g es in ex- istin g law and procedure would be desirable to...
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Dandelion
The SpectatorSir: I was very surprised to read P. J. Kavanagh's report (Postscript, 9 June) that `the air was filled with dandelion seedlings'. Surely some terminological inexactitude here....
Laureate by competition
The SpectatorSir: Who should be the next Poet Laureate? Forget costive librarians and Angry Old Men. The answer lies under your nose. Spectator literary competition reports frequently offer...
Rhodes to Hirst
The SpectatorSir: Your cricket correspondent Alan Gibson (23 June) should know better than to quote the 'famous Yorkshire phrase' as `We'll get them in singles'. What Rhodes said to Hirst...
Oradour
The SpectatorSir: In correcting Francis King's `totally erroneous' account of the massacre at Oradour in June 1944, Mrs Montagu (Letters, 2 June) is almost wholly mistaken. She claims that...
Letters
The SpectatorPro patria Sir: Does Auberon Waugh (Another voice, 16 June) really think that people of my generation and that of his father, whom I knew pretty well, so enjoyed the 1939-45...
Inconceivable taciturnity
The SpectatorSir: Out from the whole world we received letters and telegraphs, in which people support our campain 'Save the Sea- Turtles'. Also a lot of daily newspapers as well as...
Sir: Having spent a lifetime in the teaching profession, I
The Spectatorfind myself totally in agreement with Colin Welch. Everything he says in his article is true. M. Grant Cormack 13 Maryville Park, Belfast
Divergence
The SpectatorSir: Colin Welch refers to 'malignant clap- trap' (Centrepiece, 16 June). His entire article on the teachers, in my view, comes under this heading, to which I would add the word...
Nig-nog and nigger
The SpectatorSir: Before `nig-nog' (Letters, 9 June) was transmogrified into a term restricted to racial abuse, 'nigger' suffered the same fate. The 17th-century English Queen Elizabeth of...
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Centrepiece
The SpectatorSaved from the majority Colin Welch S ome think my fears about the teaching profession exaggerated, the examples I gave in the past two weeks untypical. Most sincerely do I...
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Books
The SpectatorReaching for the Araldite Ferdinand Mount The Politics of Consent Francis Pym (Hamish Hamilton £8.95) T ooking natural is not what politicians r are best at. For the first of...
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Hysteria revisited
The SpectatorBrian Inglis A Leg to Stand On Oliver Sacks (Duckworth £8.95) Doctors Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy (Weidenfeld & Nicolson £10.95) O liver Sacks, neurologist extraordin- ary,...
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Logotarditis
The SpectatorPatrick Skene Catling Swallow D. M. Thomas (Gollancz £895) M ako [the US Secretary of State] strode around with increasing des- peration. He could see there was some- thing...
Pale Greene
The SpectatorLewis Jones Doctor Slaughter Paul Theroux (Hamish Hamilton £6.95) T here is as much in the way of tourism in Paul Theroux's fiction as in his books about long railway journeys....
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Books Wanted
The SpectatorCHARLES DOUGHTY: 'Travels in Arabia De- serta' and any title by Anthony Carson. Skea, 2e Cambaht Rd, London SW15 6EW. JOHN BUCHAN: 'Julius Caesar' and 'Man and Deeds'. M....
No picnic?
The SpectatorArtemis Cooper The Princess of Siberia Christine Sutherland (Methuen £8.95) Tn the early 19th century, the average leducated Russian knew as much about Siberia as the average...
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Joyce and Co
The SpectatorMark Amory Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation Noel Riley Fitch (Souvenir £14.95) t starts as a romantic story. Sylvia Beach, the daughter of a Presbyterian minister, comes...
Tantrums
The SpectatorHarriet Waugh Wanting Angela Huth (Harvill Press £8.95) Strange Loop Amanda Prantera (Cape £8.50) The Garden of Earthly Delights Lawson Davies (Michael Joseph £8.95) I ii her...
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The glowing phoenix
The SpectatorPeter Quennell The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain Edited by Kenneth 0. Morgan (Oxford University Press £15) A full-scale history of any great country is apt to resemble...
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Puppet show
The SpectatorFrances Hill Morning Star Simon Raven (Blond & Briggs £8.95) T his is strictly a novel for addicts. New readers are unlikely to push their way far through the tangle of heavy,...
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Arts
The SpectatorPast lives Peter Ackroyd The Return of Martin Guerre (`15', Curzon) A nd also the return of Gerard Depar- dieu — although he has been away only momentarily; here he is again,...
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Art
The SpectatorThird degree Alistair Hicks O ver 2,500 students roll off the art school conveyor belt every year, yet throughout Britain there are only some hundred painters and sculptors...
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Theatre
The SpectatorWater torture Giles Gordon The War at Home (Hampstead) The Spanish Tragedy (National: Lyttelton) Aren't We All? (Theatre Royal, Haymarket) or much of its four scenes, James...
Gilbert and Sullivan
The SpectatorGoing native Geoffrey Smith T he last few years have been the best and worst of times for Gilbert and Sullivan — worst for devotees of the operas a la D'Oyly Carte, best for...
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Tennis
The SpectatorPlay of the day Harry Eyres CT t will get worse. [It] will combine 'structural infantilism with hardnosed technology. It will be harsh, and it will lack both modesty and...
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Television
The SpectatorWhiz kids Alexander Chancellor T was pleased to have it confirmed by no 1.less an authority than Sir Clive Sinclair, the electronics genius, that video tape recorders are so...
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Postscript
The SpectatorFurniture P. J. Kavanagh T think I stumbled recently on one of 'those Great Divides which make people with one set of mental furniture forever unable to understand the...
High life
The SpectatorTennis racket Taki D uring the French championships at Roland Garros in 1965, my Greek Partner and I drew the formidable Amer- ican team of Frank Froehling and Cliff Richey as...
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No. 1324: The winners
The SpectatorJaspistos reports: Competitors were asked for a rhyming poem containing as many acronyms as possible. This was a tough assignment, especially as 1 don't believe there's a...
Competition
The SpectatorNo. 1327: 1 was robbed Set by Jaspistos: A Mr White, a black singer, is 'shocked' that he has just been turned down as 'unsuitable' for the parts of Monterone or Sparafucile in...
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Crossword 664
The SpectatorPrize: 110 — or a copy of Chambers Dictionary, 1983 edition (ring the word 'Dictionary' under name and address) — for the first correct solution opened on 16 July. Entries to:...
Solution to 661: Gibbous ▪ A t i lS 4 S0 4 N DI'S E°A S 7 E 1 13
The SpectatorN 17b R .077W•O.R , 0 IC I n r R 0 , DIEM A 1% 4 B ri r H I !Al G i s A N TlEi0 E LL ADV ETHU OR IPIDAU 7 1tEE EIP L I '1 , 1 S H H1OTE B A 0 L E I A ja.i 1 , 0 P A T 14 .44 1 H...
Chess
The SpectatorRed brick road Raymond Keene T hanks to what the Guardian has des- cribed as the 'initiative and vision' of the London Docklands Development Cor- poration (notably Eddie...
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Put out more flans
The SpectatorW hen it comes to food there is a war on: nouvies versus the regionalists. What sweet relief it is to go to a house where someone bangs a joint of meat in the oven, boils a few...