29 MAY 1971, page 5

Words Of Wisdom

I commend politicians to pay very close at- tention to the leading article in last week's Sunday Express.: 'Before there can be any question of Britain joining the Common Market......

The Spectator's Notebook

I now hear from all sides that the Prime N I Mister really is determined to go ahead on the Common Market, come what may. This intelligence proceeds alike from the soft- centred......

Camp-follower

The press has behaved lamentably over the Paris trip. It allowed itself to be carried away. Fortunately, there are members of Parliament who are made of sterner stuff. We still......

Religious Mania

And there is a great deal of it,around. it is difficult offhand to recall a time when the establishment

Sterner Stuff

The popular press, students of form (and members of Parliament with shaky con- stituencies and with no steadfast rock-like certainty of re-election) may care to note, is not......

The Enormity Of It

By now the Apostle Peter Jenkins is so car- ried away by the occasion that his command of English deserts him entirely and. he com- mits a splendid solecism: He continues, still......

Adeste, Fidelis!

One quality of a religious fanatic is the loss of all sense of proportion : great and small matters are seen in the blinding light of unreason to be the same size. Thus one also......