13 NOVEMBER 1982

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Grinding and boring on

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W hatever may be thought about the Thatcher government, it undeniably possesses a remorseless quality. By the governmental standards the British public has become accustomed to...

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Political commentary

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Sir Geoffrey's little package Colin Welch Cir Geoffrey Howe's autumn economic statement was described by Mr Shore as `empty of hope and promise', as 'depress- ing' and...

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Notebook

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y ears of experience have taught me that one should never venture an opinion, f avourable or unfavourable on events con- cerned in any way with Israel or the Jews,' writes Mr A....

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Another voice

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Birds in their little nests Auberon Waugh T here are two good reasons for delaying any public expression of the rage and nausea which must be felt by nearly all...

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Waiting for Washington

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aohdan Nahaylo A ter last Sunday ' s traditional display of Soviet military might in Red Square to mar k the anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, President Brezhnev...

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Pope against the Spanish tide

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David Gollob Saragossa I n the square outside the basilica, some people are already fighting for a front-row seat. A group of women from the Basque country make themselves...

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Begin's Jewish critics

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Nicholas von Hoffman Washington enachem Begin returns next week to a m United States which he may not re cognise politically. Almost out of self- defence, if not...

One hundred years ago

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A very disagreeable incident has oc- curred at Gibraltar. Two refugees from Cuba, against whom nothing is alleged except treason, landed without passports, and were immediately...

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Crisis of German liberalism

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Timothy Garton Ash Berlin W est German politics are suddenly moving as they have not moved for three decades. Last week's stormy con- ference of the Free Democratic Party...

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No room for refugees

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Harold Pateshall Perth, Western Australia In 1974 the Australian Labour govern- ment under Gough Whitlam attracted widespread odium for co-operating with the Soviet government...

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Suffer the little children

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Andrew Brown Gothenburg S ocial workers in Stockholm are trained by studying case histories. One such, regularly used, is the story of 'Sara', whose baby was taken from her at...

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Garret the Good

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Olivia O'Leary Dublin `Vez are all the same,' snapped a woman 1_ pushing her way into Mass last Sunday past the Prime Minister. `Yez should all be thrown in the Liffrey and...

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The legacy of Old Tom

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Richard West Thetford, Norfolk T here is a gilt statue of Thomas Paine outside the Trust House Forte Bell Hotel (£35 a night). There is even a Thomas Paine Hotel (charging £25...

The sixth clue in the Treasure Hunt is to be

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Advertising

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banger: censors at work Paul Johnson p orrns of censorship abound in this coun- try. We saw one in action recently at the —oil y Mail, when a closed shop printing Tent_lon...

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Letters

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Love or violence Sir: In your leading article 'A sterile argument' (30 October) you have put your finger both on the weakness of the Church working party report, The Church and...

Sir: Your leading article, 'A sterile argu- ment,' (30 October)

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cannot be allowed to pass unchallenged. The report of the Church of England's working party on nuclear weapons, The Church and the Bomb, gives four very clear reasons for rul-...

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Pub talk

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Sir: , In a letter to you a few months ago, I arm attention to the generous but I think Misguided latitude you give Richard In- grains in his regular column for the expres- s...

Paying for education

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Sir: May I follow up Mr Colin Welch's most interesting proposal for the NHS (6 November) by suggesting that a similar solution might be applied to education. Schools would be...

Keller's career

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si r: „ I cannot understand why you published A n th ony Burgess's wholly untrue 6,g, r anhical sketch of myself: ... Hans w ` r t er, a highly respected critic who has at id...

Sam White, OBE

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Sir: I thank Alexander Chancellor for his kind reference to me in last week's Notebook but I must correct his version of what happened over my OBE award. This was never...

A reluctant socialist?

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Sir: Mr Enoch Powell's conclusion, in his review of Beatrice Webb's diaries (23 Oc- tober), that she was a `reluctant socialist' because she was really `by instinct religious,...

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Books

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The camera's eye Paul Overy The Artist as Photographer Marina Vaizey .(Sidgwick & Jackson £12.95) The Artists of my Life Brassai (Thames & Hudson £20) P hotography was not...

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Revisionism

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James Knox The English Vision David Watkin (John Murray £25) P eople who complain of reds under the beds sometimes forget that whites exist too. Dr Watkin is a white, who for...

Wonder-kid

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Richard Shone Lucian Freud T he combination of this book's author, subject and publisher creates high ex- e cl ations. Here is one of the most subtle writer s on art...

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Fantasist

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Richard Calvocoressi Salvador Dali Dawn Ades (Thames & Hudson £7.95, £3.95) Q o much sensational nonsense has been written about Salvador Dali, not least by the artist...

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Merchant of Venice

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Marc Jordan Canaletto J. G. Links (Phaidon £27.50) I t i s almost as if J. G. Links's Canaletto has two heroes. The unloveable Joseph s" mtth h British consul in Venice, is...

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Overflowing

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Peter Levi A Right to Song:The Life of John Clore Edward Storey (Methuen £14.95) F ifty years ago John Clare was a poet o f obscure and mysterious attraction, lase William...

Serpentine

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Francis King The Masque of St Eadmundsburg Humphrey R. Morrison (Blond & Briggs £7.95) C ince, in its passage from classical L./to mediaeval times, the Latin word universitas...

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Poignant

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David Austin Love All? Michael Heath's cartoons from the Guardian (Blond & Briggs £1.95) M ichael Heath's book is about sex, b ut his is not the cheerful, vulgar world ol the...

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Miracles

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Graham Hough T he Shadow and the Light: A Defence of Daniel Dunglas Home, the Medium Elizabeth Jenkins (Hamish Hamilton f12.95) rs Browning thought him weak and 14 S l u d ge...

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Fine Arts

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Official aesthetics Gavin Stamp T he Royal Fine Art Commission was created in 1924 'to inquire into such questions of public amenity or artistic im- portance as may be...

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Royal Academy in jeopardy

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John McEwen n his introduction to the booklet adver- tising the Royal Academy Trust Appeal, Sir Hugh Casson writes that even more remarkable perhaps than the Academy's...

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Grandeur

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David Wakefield T he most interesting exhibition by far to be seen on Bond Street at the moment is Souvenirs of the Grand Tour at Wilden- stein's (20 October to 1 December)....

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Theatre

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Fruit and nut Mark Amory Nuts (Whitehall) Coming Clean (Bush) N uts has had a triumphal progress. Starting on off-off-Broadway, it reached Broadway without alteration or re-...

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Television

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Hand in glove Richard Ingrams T he kindly press reception accorded to the debut of Channel 4 brings home once again the unhealthy relationship which now exists between TV...

Cinema

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Death heads Peter Ackroyd Angel ( A AA', selected cinemas) S in ce Angel is set in Northern Ireland, cr e , a readY-made atmosphere has been k n —t ed for it. We all know, or...

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High life

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At odds Taki I feel like the pugilist who, after bel knocked out early in the first round w a asked by an insensitive hack what had Sa lt wrong, and offered the laconic but...

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Low life

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Too much Jeffrey Bernard T here hasn't been a lot to laugh about this past week. After 30 years I'm back to 9st, the featherweight limit, and what's more I now need middle...

Postscript

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Rats or beavers Patrick Marnham T he 300 rats of Trowbridge have disap- peared into a time-warp almost as large as the Salang Pass Tunnel in Afghanistan. Sometime last week,...

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No. 1241: The winners

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Jaspistos reports: Competitors were asked for advertisement copy aimed to sell some very ordinary article at a very high price to the millionaires' market. I once watched a...

Competition

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No. 1244: Up Down Under! Set by Jaspistos: Although in a referendum the Australians have chosen a tune (`Ad- vance, Australia Fair') for a new national anthem, they haven't...

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Chess

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Andrew Whiteley T he large number of entries — 94 — for (or the biennial world team championship olympiad) in Lucerne, desirable though I I ! is, creates problems; particularly...

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Portrait of the week

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T he Prime Minister of Israel, Mr Begin, told a commission of inquiry in Jerusalem that he was not consulted about the sending of Phalangist militiamen into two Beirut refugee...

Books Wanted

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MURDER TRIALS — particularly monographs on Victorian cases. Jonathan Goodman, 43 Eal- ing Village, London W5 2LZ. BROWNING by G. K. Chesterton (English Men of Letters series)....

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Treasure Hunt Set by Christopher Booker T his issue of The Spectator has the sixth clue in the Great Spec - _ tator Treasure Hunt. The Treasure Hunt will last for six m ore...

Sixth Clue

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E ach set of three questions leads to a place somewhere in the British Isles. Remember the three questions all have the same answer. 1) It gave birth to the founder of the...