Until recently the prospect of a trade war between the EEC and the United States has been a cloud no bigger than a man's hand. Now, with the news that Mr Connally and the...

The natural sense of relief that last Sunday's great demonstration at Newry passed off without an eruption of violence should not obscure its meaning. The march itself, from its...

Lust for power and boredom Hugh Macpherson "Democratic contrivances are quarantine measures against that plague, the lust for power," said Nietzsche, " as such they are very...

Making Angela Davis stand trial Louis Claiborne Angela Davis is black and beautiful and bright. She is young and a woman. She is neither frivolous nor a demagogue: and however...

The new unemployment Kenneth Baker M.P. On Monday, January 24, the Prime Minister replied to Labour's censure motion which attacked the Government for allowing unemployment to...

Predicting the future 9rie of the more depressing things about ;Ile tr current ' ecological' debate — apart orn the possibility that the doom-criers Ma y be right — is the...

The Earnshaw Neighbourhood Auberon Waugh ErsV The Earnshaw Neighbourhood Caldwell (Michael Joseph £1.90) At the close of the annual season in novels, one is suddenly a ss "V by...

Peter Partner A Short History of the Papacy in the Middle Ages Walter Ullmann (Methuen £4.50) Professor Ullmann is probably more learned in mediaeval church law than any holder...

David Harsent Love & Fame John Berryman (Faber £1.40) Breaking & Entering X. J. Kennedy (Oxford £1.25) Air and Chill Earth Molly Holden (Chatto and Windus £1.25) The Gavin...

Qillian Freeman Z PrnLiderY k Passion Sexuality in Victo "11.A s rnerica Milton Rugoff (Rupert Hartin my possession two bound weekly magazines for adoles 's -ent s , n ‘-'ne is...

People who know how easy it is to ruin a new publishing venture with bad books and parlous management will be pleasantly surprised to hear that Tom Stacey Ltd is now making a...

The quick and the dead Kenneth Hurren IL. °lir major theatrical giants unveiled ii' o 'Ir first exhibits of 1972 last week. T he har Sh akespeare Company, which has Ed Iv...

The last of Thames Television's programmes on the departments of the British Museum, with Professor Asa Briggs introducing the Department of Manuscripts, will be screened next...

Witches' brew Tony Palmer Polanski's Macbeth (' AA ' Plaza) is a flabby affair and raises, not for the first time, the troubled question of whether S h a kespeare can ever be...

The Department of Trade and Industry are trying to reshape the Monopolies Commission with greater representation for the smaller business and the consumer. But who is...

Agin Rothschild Bernard Dixon Next Monday (February 14) is the deadline for the scientific community in Britain to submit to the Cabinet Office comments on the now infamous...

(2) Scotland Viator The thing about the Hebrides is that the fishing is as good as that in Ireland. The tranquility of islands like Barra, Uist and Benbecula is an experience...