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Relief and foreboding
The SpectatorRelief and foreboding The initial reactions must be relief and foreboding. First the relief. Hyperbole should be avoided. but Mr Jamnes. lmmy Carter has surely been the most...
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The lovable old menace
The SpectatorPolitical commentary The lovable old menace Ferdinand Mount He voted for Silkin . . he didn't. . .well, he said he was going to. . . he wouldn't say he had unless he had,...
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Notebook
The SpectatorNotebook One person who will he pleased at Ronald Reagan's victorv is his old frienrd Mr- lan MacGregor, Chairman of the British Steel Corporation. Mr MacGregor believes that...
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The CBI's 'only way'
The SpectatorAnother voice The CBI's 'only way' Auberon Waugh I never thought that I would miss Sir John Methven, the last Director General of the Confederation of British Industries, who...
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The humiliation of Carter
The SpectatorThe humiliation of Carter Henry Fairlie Washington Well, I did say that, if Governor Reagan, Wvon he would win big. But not even his rnfst enthusiastic and convinced...
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Why Reagan won
The SpectatorWhy Reagan won Nicholas von Hoffman Washington The television said it was a conservative tidesweep or tide or trend, but the election was more like a national coin flip. The...
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The laughing revolution
The SpectatorThe laughing revolution Tim Garton Ash Warsaw 'We demand registration for Solidarity', the Posters still proclaim all over Gdansk. BUt Someone has added with unchanged...
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Russia: the fear of contagion
The SpectatorRussia: the fear of contagion Bohdan Nahaylo The Russians are clearly worried that recent events in Poland may have repercussions within the Soviet Union. On 20 August the...
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Fair play and the Revenue
The SpectatorFair play and the Revenue Geoffrey Wheatcroft nII Venice once, three condemned prisoners Were being marched to execution, to underg death by one of the refined tortures Which...
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Capitalism and the big steal
The SpectatorCapitalism and the big steal Jack Trevor Story Shoplifting is one of the very few excitements left. It is a way of climbing mountains in vour own town. 'I did it because it...
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The defence business
The SpectatorIn the City The defence business Tony Rudd The ghost of Sir Basil Zaharoff. who was the greatest of all arms salesmen, stalks the markets. For in a world of industrial...
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Guarding against tyranny
The SpectatorGuarding against tyranny Sir: Replying to Mr Maycock (1 NOVeOl' ber), and at the risk of being charged with splitting hairs, may I submit that it is the Queen in Parliament who...
The new English literature
The SpectatorThe new English literature Sir: It is all very well to pontificate in Y0" leader (25 October) on the virtues ol English writing, but it was perhaps to expected that you could...
Sighting an editor
The SpectatorLetters Sighting an editor Sir: Byron Rogers's article on editor hunting - 'In search of William Rees-Mogg' (I November) - recalls a sighting of a cdistinguished editor of the...
Living cathedrals
The SpectatorLiving cathedrals Sir: I like Mrs Warehouse's story (20 September) of her small nephew in front of Leslie Durbin's Chapel of the Holy Spirit at Ripon Cathedral - how he called...
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The Stretchford Chronicles: 25 Years of Peter Simple Extracts from the 'Way of the World' column of the Daily Telegraph Selected by Michael Wharton; illustrated by ffolkes
The SpectatorBooks The funniest writer in England Richard West The Stretchford Chronicles: 25 Years of Peter Simple Extracts from the 'Way of the World column of the Daily Telegraph...
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the Tennyson Album Andrew Wheatcroft Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart Robert Bernard Martin
The SpectatorRipped open A.N. Wilson The Tennyson Album Andrew Wheatcroft TOutlede P£10 50) ennyson: The Unquiet Heart Robert 13ernard Martin (Oxford £12.95) Who said that reading the...
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Edwin Lutyens by his Daughter Mary Lutyens
The SpectatorSad genius Gavin Stamp Edwin Lutyens by his Daughter Mary Lutyens (Murray £12.95) Lutelns is a name even to those who have no interest in architecture and have probably...
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The Past Neil Jordan
The SpectatorVisionaries Francis King The Past Neil Jordan (Cape £6.50) To recreate the past is always, in some measure, to invent it. This is the basic theme of Neil Jordan's boldly...
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The Price The Provok'd Wife
The SpectatorArts Light relief Bryan Robertson The Price (Shaw Theatre) The Provok'd Wife (Lyttelton Theatre) A first rate company, well directed by Anthony Cornish, is providing...
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Caligula
The SpectatorCinema Roman follies Peter Ackroyd Caligula ('X', Prince Charles Cinema) Even if the Romans in Britain were appallingly vulgar, as the latest dramatic evidence suggests, on...
Not surprising
The SpectatorArt - Not surprising - l John McEwen anhle number of shows now opening, running t, csing makes this a sharp-shooting In't the Serpentine Gallery (till 16 B ennber and then...
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Right to know
The SpectatorTelevision Right to know Richard Ingrams I am glad to see that Robin Day's Question Time has been brought forward now to the reasonable time of 10.15, but it is still far too...
Seriously
The SpectatorHigh life Seriously Taki Although Edmund Wilson was by MOst accounts not the nicest of men, he Is nevertheless almost a hero of mine. He was very important to people like...
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Bliss
The SpectatorLow life Bliss Jeffrey Bernard Ihere was a harmless spread in last week's tlh Y Express which caught my eye and eT Summoned my gall which was headed beaU HAPPINESS Is ... and...
Bee news
The SpectatorPostscript Bee news Patrick Marnham The world of bees was recently rocked to its foundations by the news that Brother Adam, the bee king of Buckfast Abbey, had been robbed...