Index for January - June 1986 Subjects and Titles (A) ARTICLE (AR) THE ARTS (AV) ANOTHER VOICE (CO) COMPETITION ( CS) CITY AND SUBURBAN D) DIARY r F ) THE ECONOMY ) FORSYTE (I)...

T he IRA welcomed the New Year by murdering two policemen as the church bells fell silent; Martin McGuinness was released uncharged after being detained for six days; Owen...

Mr George Foulkes, MP for Carrick, is a practical man. He is inserting a clause into a Bill promoted by him in the House of Commons which would make it illegal to smoke while...

WESTLAND HO! M r Michael Heseltine no doubt has a rich variety of motives in the Westland affair, but 'vaulting ambition, which o'er- leaps itself is a description that fits...

THE church of St George-in-the-East, one of Hawksmoor's noblest creations, has served the people of what was originally outer East London for over 250 years. Sited between Cable...

Goodbye to the commanding heights or is it only au revoir? FERDINAND MOUNT S ometimes you have to scratch around for the coming thing and strain your eyes to discern the...

T he number of South African whites trying to establish their right to British nationality has increased enormously in the last few weeks. A Middle Temple lawyer friend, who...

Under the enormous shadow of Miss Cornwell's bum AUBERON WAUGH The words to which exception was taken, in a review by the Sunday People's television critic, Miss Nina Miskow,...

Stephen Robinson on the growing conviction among English-speaking white South Africans that the country is no longer worth living in Cape Town GOOD news for the South African...

Charles Glass on the survivors who massacre the survivors of massacres IN THE early 1970s, the PLO offices in Beirut used to give foreign journalists copies of pamphlets with...

Dhiren Bhagat on the Congress Party's low ebb in its centenary year Bombay THE centenary celebrations of the Con- gress Party began here the Friday before last at a quarter...

Richard West on the Militant Tendency's friends among the Sandinistas Corinto THE Sandinista newspaper Barricada re- cently ran a story about a meeting to honour the Beatles...

A correspondent writes from Madras: `Theebau arrived yesterday. The Col- onel who brought him over, before he and his men departed, requested the acting Chief Secretary of the...

A. T. Q. Stewart on the Unionists' bitter sense of betrayal by England Belfast I FEAR I have reached that stage of life when, to the concealed amusement of my sons, a tear is...

Gavin Stamp chooses an architect for the National Gallery extension NEXT week an architect will be chosen for the most important public building com- mission in Britain for...

Frances Partridge remembers an inspired conversationalist and literary enthusiast ANYONE known to possess no enemies may easily be credited with being dull. In David Cecil's...

Publishing: Paul Johnson on the remarkable rise in the number of new titles IN ITS issue of 4 January, that admirable publication, the Bookseller, recorded that no fewer than...

THE view from the Stock Exchange Tower is of a City suffering from a form of Gresham's Law. There will be half a dozen regulatory bodies, and firms will prefer (so the Exchange...

AH, THE cold New Year — season of bracing financial resolutions! Budgetary control falls upon the business scene, past excesses must be undone, and directors and managers with...

THE hovercraft is a triumph of British inventive genius, as we are more frequent- ly told by politicians now they have gone off Sir Clive Sinclair. I wonder, though, whether (as...

Sir Nicholas's ten bright years end with the barometer falling CHRISTOPHER FILD ES A lean and ambitious Doctor of Phi- losophy learned in the lore of ormolu barometers is an...

Sir: I am amazed at the ignorance, or tactlessness, or perhaps both, of your editorial staff. Under the heading of the article 'Dementia and Mrs Thatcher' on page 39 of your...

Sir: Christopher Hitchens's article about manners and identities (`Mischievous Aza- nia', 21/28 December) reminds me of what a Russian academic told me about the first names of...

Sir: While I applaud Sebastian Faulks's campaign against current usage of the words 'perceive' and 'perceptions' (Tor what we are about to perceive', 21/28 December) on the...

Sir: Paul Johnson is perfectly right about the overestimation of Braudel (`The media', 7 December). When his book came out in England, I pointed out that he had little knowledge...

Sir: I hope I can grant Peter Levi's wish (Books, 14 December) regarding the boy on the roof of Westminster Abbey, de- picted in the Bayeux Tapestry. He isn't holding on to the...

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A black Blimp? Colin Welch THE PRICE OF A TICKET: COLLECTED NON-FICTION 1948-1985 by James Baldwin Michael Joseph, £14.95 I t was with a leaden heart, I must confess, that I...

Anthony Storr THE FREUD SCENARIO by Jean-Paul Sat/re edited by J.-B. Pontalis translated by Quintin Hoare Verso, f16.95 I n 1925, Karl Abraham, one of Freud's closest...

John Graham CULBERTSON by John Clay Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £14.95 N ame: Ely Culbertson. Date of birth: 1891, Romania, son of American mining engineer and Russian mother. US...

Better you should forget Everything I said; Everything I did Should be hidden; No-one ever know That I was so: But I have vanity, And you must read me. C. H. Sisson

Mervyn Brown MUDDLING THROUGH IN MADAGASCAR by Deryla Murphy John Murray, f10.95 W riters of travel adventures nowadays have to try harder to interest the reading public. In...

Margaret FitzHerbert A VIOLENT LIFE by Pier Paolo Pasolini translated by William Weaver Carcanet, £9.95 T en years ago on All Souls Day 1975 the murdered, mutilated body of...

Brian Martin THE LAST MAHARAJA by Quentin Crewe Michael Joseph, £12.95 F or centuries the maharajas stole the limelight on the stage of princely India with their gaudy...

Roy Fuller RANDALL JARRELL'S LETTERS edited by Mary Jarrell Faber & Faber, f25. A remarkable number of celebrated American poets were born in the decade 1908-17 — Theodore...

John Zametica CLEMENT ATTLEE: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY by Trevor Burridge Cape, £20 A ttlee remains postwar Britain's un- known prime minister. The general im- pression is of a...

Francis King LANDSCAPES AND LITERATI: UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF W.H. HUDSON AND GEORGE GISSING edited by Dennis Shrubsall and Pierre Coustillas Michael Russell, f12.95 T he...

Music A class prejudice Peter Phillips T he delight of the Treasure Houses of Britain exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington only indirectly lies in the...

Defence of the Realm (` PG', Odeon Haymarket) A secret state Peter Ackroyd F rom its first scenes Defence of the Realm effortlessly evokes the tone of the `thriller', no...

The wisest religion Noel Malcolm A few months ago a kind reader wrote to thank me for an article he had enjoyed, and added: 'Here is a list of a few more programmes you might...

The Cherry Orchard (National, Cottesloe) As You Like It (RSC, Barbican) Rich and surprising Kathy O'Shaughnessy T he set is a haze of green fading into blue covered by a...

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Obscuring the view Ursula Buchan F or most people, severed for ever from any rural root and denied access to the oral traditions that naturally accompany grow- ing up in the...

Paradise isle Taki St Barthelemy Imagine what the Caribbean was 25 years ago, before the 3,000-mile-long neck- lace of islands stretching from the Bahamas to South America...

A bishop's body Alexander Chancellor M atthew Parris is a bit of a boy scout of an MP whose recreation is listed in Who's Who as 'distance running'. Since he was only 30 years...

A little bit of leisure Jeffrey Bernard W ell, I did end up spending Christ- mas in the Middlesex Hospital after all. I was in a bed wedged between an ex-colonel in the...

Liberated lady Alice Thomas Ellis ell, after all that fuss it wasn't such a bad Christmas after all — really quite agreeable. I always feel a bit daunted as I regard 15...

All together now P. J. Kavanagh W e should all complain more. The trouble is, how to do it decently. My student son, Cornelius, has done much cheap travelling, has had to do...

Idle thoughts Jaspistos I n Competition No. 1402 you were in- vited to supply, in the form of a letter to a newspaper, earnest and impractical advice to the Government as to...

Hatchet dug up Raymond Keene M any reports of the closing ceremony of the last world championship indicated that Kasparov had buried the hatchet with Fide and the USSR...

LOILM,....1 07 LifiLik...•KJMOOLiku SHOULD you be the proud possessor of a real larder, the heel of some great ham and the remnants of a huge potted tongue, the following...

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The unclued lights and those clued otherwise than by definition are the 12 Titans, children of Uranus and Gaea. Winners: Margaret Gray, London WC1 (£20); Mrs C. M. Paddick,...

`Who would not give all else for two p/ ennyworth only of beautiful Soup?' wrote Lewis Carroll. You are invited to write a poem (maximum 16 lines) in couplets, of any length or...

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