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and a case of double indebtedness There is nothing repugnant in the Im- migration Bill, and it is consequently to be welcomed as a tidying-up piece of legislation, as a further...

that stern reality has overtaken Britain's attitude to her former possessions. But, as insults are exchanged this week in Wednesday's South African arms debate, there is the...

Sir Gerald Nabarro is an interesting and complex man and far from being the buf- foon he frequently makes himself appear to be. Dick Clements, editor of Tribune, and I went up...

Purely as a matter of fact, having talked during the past week with several pro- and anti-Market MPS, I report deepening despond- ency in the pro-Market ranks. 'The thing is...

In the spring of last year, an acquaintance of mine who does some writing for tele- vision put up an idea for a drama series (with draft script) to BBC-TV. After a few weeks it...

Although it is, and has been for several weeks, my firm impression that, as I wrote some time ago, the third London airport would end up at Foulness, I hear some con- cerned and...

The ten shilling piece apart, I do not like the new money and I have yet to meet any- one who does. My own difficulty, shared by several friends, is occasioned particularly by...

A young member of Parliament went to Grenoble to speak on Britain's behalf, advo- cating entry. He did so in French. He was surprised, and shocked, to receive shortly afterwards...

In the House of Lords, five days earlier, they talked of Jesus Christ and disarmament. And one noble lord layed claim to personal knowledge of Ho Chi Minh. He was not, he...

Wednesday 24 February: with the publication of the Government's Immigration Bill, it was confirmed that from 1 January 1972 common- wealth citizens will no longer have the auto-...

The morality of profit J. ENOCH POWELL 'Profit has become a dirty word'; or, 'profit ought not to be a dirty word'; or, 'socialism has made profit a dirty word'. These, and...

Ups and Downs By an Economist Budget advice, now flowing so freely into the Treasury from all sides, seems for the most part to overlook two important facts about the British...

Too far too fast CHARLES HARGROVE Paris When President Pompidou, a few weeks ago, chose M Rene Tomasini, a forceful and out- spoken Corsican, with an excellent record as...

Can anything be done about it? C. H. SISSON One must not expect too much • of an organisation which has to take cognisance of all the muddled business which pushes itself...

On unions and usurpers GOOD BROTHER LONDINIENSIS, Your ingeniose contrivance of a pigeon- post has now caught on marvellously, and here in Oxon our skies are dark with pigeons...

Your trusty pigeon did lighten upon my table, vox coelo, whilst I was a-breakfasting, and delivered itself safely of your letter, which in my appetite did speedily displace the...

Roger Scruton on James Joyce Reviews by George Holmes, Patrick Cosgrave, Christopher Hudson Auberon Waugh on new fiction Henry Fairlie on David Frost's Americans That the...

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That ragged leaking, raft held between sea and sea its long forgotten cable melting into deeper darkness where, at the root of it, the slow sea circles and chews. Nightly the...

The Avignon Papacy 1305-1403 Yves Renouard translated by Denis Bethell (Faber £2.75) From 1309 to 1376 Avignon, an Otherwise unimportant town on the Rhone, was the seat of the...

The Great American Jackpot Herbert Gold (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £1.75) One great advantage of having a Negro pro- blem in a country is that it produces the most excellent...

Patrick Cosgrave on the dissolution of our poetry To speak of greatness, or even of achieve- ment of a high order, in connection with post- war British poetry is not merely...

The Review (No 24) edited by Ian Hamilton (25p) - Crow was not reviewed in these pages when it first appeared; and this is a good oppor- tunity to mark its appearance, and to...

It is easier for the ordinary English reader to come to terms with Joyce than it is for many English critics. Joyce's writings are everywhere ironical, but nowhere satirical;...

No. 1471 DAEDALUS Aro prize is oflered this week. The solution will aPpear in next week's issue. Across 1 (Here is the answer) (2, 11) 9 Such a political jibe is bound to...

Rostrum II Contest 12 Eros 13 Dressing up 16 Tragic 17 Rotunda 20 Risings 21 Tavern 24 Constitute 25 Asia 27 Inherit 29 Correct 30 Gannetry 31 Bossed. Down: I Fer- ments 2...

Roll over, Tchaikovsky CHRISTOPHER HUDSON Another of Ken Russell's tours de force, The Music Lovers (x, Odeon, Hay- market) takes us fortissimo through the life of...

Intruders KENNETH HURREN As soon as I laid eyes on the stage set for Stanley Eveling's play, Mister, at the Duchess, I knew we'd all have a hard time trying to catch the drift...

Time, gentlemen EVAN ANTHONY Anyone unfortunate enough to have died the same day as John F. Kennedy or Winston S. Churchill, probably got short shrift in the obi- .tuary...

Overground in Old Vienna TONY PALMER 'I shoot lions,' my host began. 'Come down- stairs and see my trophies. Of course, these days you are only supposed to shoot one of each...

Sir: A. J. Hendry says (27 Febru- ary), `I only hope your opposition [to EEC entry] does not become so much of an obsession as did Biafra during the Nigerian civil war'. Pro-...

Sir: I had the pleasure of meeting your talented young racing corres- pondent in the bar at Kempton on Saturday last and found the experi- ence both delightful and, at the same...

Sir: Mr Summers and Miss Collins would have done better to go on sheltering behind the screen of anonymity I had chivalrously erected in front of them. Both, in different...

'churlish- ness' by the paper which, in Gale and Waugh (whatever happened to Biafra when it ceased to be news- worthy?), harbours two most cele- brated churls, I would reproach...

Israel and the olive branch Sir: I was appalled by the lack of balance in your leading article 'Israel and the Olive Branch' (27 February). It betrays a shocking ignorance of...

Sir: I would like to offer two com- ments on Professor Trevor-Roper's discussion of the origins of Chris- tianity (27 February). 1. He disposes of the evidence of Tacitus by...

editorial volte-face over Europe has spread to your correspondence columns, as witness Mr G. J. A. Stern's letter (27 February). But does he not rather overdo the wog bashing in...

find that H. R. Trevor-Roper's view is pretty well what I had reached by my own wits. I hold that the Christ of the Christian church is an ideal man (therefore called divine)...

years, until a fortnight ago, when I was ap- palled by your leading article on the Common Market. For a publication of your stan- dard to state that 'its position is...

that While all politics was about power, Power politics was about the misuse of power. Sir Harry Legge-Bourke (23 January) asserts that politics is essentially concerned With...

Sir: One cannot help wondering how much your unequivocal oppo- sition to British entry into the EEC owes to misconception and mis- understanding. Your article 'The Common...

Sir: The outlook of the 'new' SPECTATOR is commendable both for its realism and for the artic- ulate way in which this is usually presented. Clearly we owe more to Peterhouse...

Sir: With reference to Mr Seton- Watson's letter (20 February) re- garding the Dutschke protest meet- ing at Oxford, I feel l obliged to make clear one or two of his...

NICHOLAS DAVENPORT The economic barometer is falling rapidly. The storm of 'a sizeable recession is blowing up—perhaps the worst since the war. Unem- ployment was last reported...

Poor Titus Oates trekked all the way from Penrith to Kempton for a rotten Saturday afternoon's sport. I, on the other hand, had only to come from London and had a splen- did...

Richard Eldridge aged thirty-one is the latest atriviste to the city's go-go scene. His public company, Junitex, and his private vehicle, Eldridge Pope, have started on the...

'One broker summing up the general disillu- sion with the performance of the Heath gov- ernment said "There is nothing worse than being let down by your own side": Seeing this...

Peter Saunders Limited is the name of a direct mail company based at Malrnesbury in Wiltshire selling tweeds and twin sets to young suburban matrons. Their sales are being hit...

Property owner Harry Hyams has arranged to buy for 0.05m the Methodists' Kingsway Hall site with a frontage on Kingsway. I am sorry to hear that to get good access he is now...

It is usual to see in the financial press during a period of takeover activity announcements by stockbrokers and merchant bankers of their purchase 'on behalf of an associate',...

Make no mistake. Mr Maudling's Immigra- tion Bill reflects the Conservative party's immitigable attitude to the coloured. Standing aside from the fuss it is clear that it is...

Now that smokeless zones have made 'London air a little cleaner will you tell your Superintendents of Parks to plant more evergreen trees like Cedars of Lebanon (Cedrus Ulan!),...

Someone brought the news to our village pub the other evening that the local tribe of gipsies were on the point of packing up and finding somewhere new to settle. Gipsies might...

Whenever anybody says 'I know just what you ought to do—you should . . I im- mediately resolve on the opposite course, even before I know what it is. But advice in print [love...

BENNY GREEN On a recent day of archetypal London weather, when outlines are obscured, not by the peasoupers of pulp fiction, but by that milky mist which wipes out distinctions...

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