Warnings to Mrs Thatcher Patrick Cosgrave Whatever else is true about the referendum campaign, this is indisputably so: that the campaign was a triumph for Mr Heath and a...

Terrorism beyond the law Eric Moonman, MP The drama of a hijacking lasts only until the news editor gets another story for his front page. But the tragedy persists long after...

Weakened flanks David W. Wragg Without the American defeats in South-East Asia and the attempt by the United States to create stronger links between NATO and Spain, the recent...

As an unbiased freeloader I went to the post-referendum parties of both the pros and the antis last Friday. I wanted a last glimpse of that Prentice-type inter-party...

Friday. the Sixth day of June Seated in my Library and there occupied in the Study of ()economical Cataclysms in Past Times (to which Topick I have but lately paid Attention so...

Theatre people are evidently as pleased as they are surprised that Westminster City Council is offering the old Playhouse in Northumberland Avenue on lease as a theatre again,...

There have been some red faces at Weidenfeld and Nicolson this spring — a testament not to the sunny climes of Clapham Junction, but to a mixture of unconcealed rage and...

Simon Raven on Kipling, and the virtues of hard work Philip Mason, as he explains in his Foreword*, has set out to tell us what we need to know of Kipling's life if we are to...

utangs Dee Wells Popcorn Venus Marjorie Rosen (Peter Owen £6.50) We can, I think, do without the preliminaries about woman's lot and simply assume that all men with an IQ over...

Chapman Pincher The Road to Ramadan Mohamed Heikal (Collins £4.50) With the reopening of the Suez Canal any reliable information about the Egyptians' real attitude towards...

Arianna Stassinopoulos Females of the Species Hugh Lloyd-Jones (Duckworth £8.50) Mary and Misogyny C. R. Boxer (Duckworth £4.95) No literary device has a longer history than...

Art, not life Peter Ackroyd Jesus on a Stick Ian Cochrane (Routledge and Kegan Paul £3.50) The Dry Conspiracy Frederick Broadie (Chatto and Windus £3.25) Here are two writers...

A "favourite" crime or thriller writer is, to me, one the whole corpus of whose work I sit down and re-read every now and again. Next in line to the favourites — or, as I would...

Press Ross McWhirter and a free press Bill Grundy Having lunch with Ross McWhirter is like sitting down to a banquet with a lot of people. Because Ross McWhirter is a lot of...

Cost of tampering John Linklater A recent front page article (Sunday Times, May 25) has drawn public attention to the danger of prescribing steroid hormone tablets for the...

Taken in adultery Martin Sullivan 'The scribes and Parisees bring a woman staken in adultery and having set her in the midst, they say to Jesus, 'Master, this woman hath been...

Byways of Chelsea Dennis Wood I am becoming more and more case-hardened against the grand spectaculars at the Chelsea Flower Show, and nowadays I prefer to begin by exploring...

Very special old bread Philip Kleinman Well, bless my soul, how time does fly. It seems only the other day that I was writing in these columns about the latest crop of...

Death without a sting Kenneth Robinson The Passenger Director: Antonioni Stars: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre 'A' Ritz (120 mins). Mice Doesn't Live Here Any...

Tributaries Kenneth Hurren Loot by Joe Orton (Royal Court Theatre) Oh Coward! devised by Roderick,: Cook from the words and music of Noel Coward (Criterion) 1 ,1t's just...

Exhibitionism Evan Anthony William Tucker goes to some pains to explain the title he has given to the collection he has selected for the Hayward Gallery's The Condition of...

Alan Maynard The wealth tax proposals, which remain very much in the air, and the standing Royal Commission on income and wealth distribution, impel public interest in the...

The shape of austerity to come Bernard Hollowood A number of readers (eleven to be precise — my wife, children and grandchildren) have asked me to advise them on methods of...

Scuffles for control of the embattled Ashbourne Investments not only continue, but now look to include a new contender. Rows about the company have now continued for eighteen...