it welcome. Such attempts as the Chancellor made, by tax deferment and provision for increased company liquidity will be useful in the attempt to counter industrial stagnation....

°ugh it looks increasingly likely that some Maj Re or measures — like the New Deal ' s Ten sV see Valley Authority — will be kept at the c art-of- construction stage as part of...

So the total complement of the British High Commission in Uganda has now been reduced to five; and it seems quite impossible for either Her Majesty's Government or any of the...

The condemnation of the Government ' s action in relieving the Clay Cross councillors of penalties justly imposed upon them by the courts for breaches in a law duly passed by...

From Lieut Commander Pau'ley Sir: The actions and utterances of leading Conservatives since the Election, and the copious outpourings of grass-roots opinion in the columns of...

Sir: While we spend 5 per cent of our national income on defence, Germany and France spend 3 per cent, Belgium and Denmark 2 per cent (International Institute for Strategic...

Sir: When will the people realise that inflation is a system of government, a system of fiscal policy, a system of trade, commerce and banking, a system of psychological warfare...

Sir: I am delighted that Mrs Barbara Castle is to do away with private beds in National Health hospitals. Now that the chips are down we shall at last see whether the morality...

Hospital consultants are to lose theirs to treat private patients but how much greater will be the patienSs' loss of freedom! At present it is open to each one of us to use all...

From Dr R. K. Edwards Sir: Patrick Cosgrove and T11 0 1 Spectator speak for the conscience ol Great Britain, and indeed the en tire world, when denouncing the UN , tator,...

prospect of changingiI overall image of Eton and making m c o t v o e b e r w2i6t)h. the times." (Specta t) O o My surprise is not inconsiderable, I had been led to believe...

,, M rs Rose Kennedy, the matriarch of the ennedy family, was in London last week for t he of her book Times Remembered P u blished by Collins. I have not yet embarked 9.1 ) on...

which it will, apparently, be impossible to continue without the aid of government grant is the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. It is revealed to be thousands of pounds in debt, to...

As the Death of Emperors is foreshadowed, not in the Entrails of a Hawk, but in the ill-discipline of the Praetorian Guard, so there are already sunlry portents that the...

atrick Cosgrave It hardly seems worthwhile writing the usual piece about the reorganisation of the Shadow Cabinet, since the present set-up cannot enjoy a very long life and...

Arianna Stassinopoulos The shadowy riders in the unannounced Tory l eadership race already seem to be doing plenty of manoeuvring for a good position at the start. T i deir...

Ronald Burgess This is the fifth of a number of articles under the general title, Inflation and Stabilisation, each of which suggests a prognosis and cure for the nation's...

Here we are again, Gay MPs are we: All good pals, And common in unity. Ted hits out at Harold, Harold blackguards Ted. Barbara refuses To keep a private bed. Joseph says that...

Paul Smith (J„, ( ,ess action is taken soon to change drasti,, tV„`Y the spending patterns of local government L asPect of public expenditure will result in e e b ankrupting...

David W. Wragg The inclusion of the aircraft industry in the Government's nationalisation proposals came as no surprise — after all, there were warnings enough. Perhaps the real...

Threatened heritage Hugh Leggatt Recent doctrinaire socialist utterances concerning the wealth tax proposals have revealed a quite extraordinary lack of comprehension as to...

Hemlock on the NHS John Linklater Th e supporters of legalised euthanasia find a new advocate in the f orm of surgeon George Mair, who hit the headlines last Friday by...

Feeling free Bill Grundy Every time I hear a politician spouting about the need for a free press I have this terrifying feeling that what he wants is a press free enough to...

The Swedish way Philip Kleinman An advertisement for an antv-perspirant showed two girls, one with a large sweat stain visible around her armpit, the other with no stain at...

November saints Denis Wood "You were telling us last Weel r : Fisher," said General JacquemieeL; "about the patron saints 0' gardeners. Are there eal November saints...

Christian compassion Martin Sullivan "Except for those whose whole soul is inhabited by Christ everybody despises the afflicted to some extent, although practically no one is...

After one of his more spectacular essays in international arm-twisting, Henry Kissinger was approached by a somewhat uncritical admirer at a Washington dinner party. "Dr...

Bernard Fergusson Peter Fleming Duff Hart-Davis (Jonathan Cape £6.00) The first review I ever wrote, almost thirty Years ago, was in the Spectator and at the behest of Peter...

Jan Morris Who Killed The British Empire? George Woodcock (Jonathan Cape £5.00) At Le Marmiton in New York the other day (a restaurant, by the way, which I recommend with...

INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS by Renouvin and Duroselle. English translation. — Archer, 69 Hadlow Rd., Tonbridge, Kent, COTTAGE ECONOMY by W. Cobbett...

Christopher Bland Poor, Dear Brendan Andrew Boyle (Hutchin son £5.25) The legend that Brendan Bracken w as Winston Churchill's illegitimate son had all the qualities required...

Magnus Magnusson The Destruction of the Country House Roy Strong, Marcus Binney, John Harris and others (Thames and Hudson £4.95, paperback £2.50) Ever been slugged by a...

Sending up Peter Ackroyd The Abbess of Crewe Muriel Spark (Macmillan £2. 00) Hers Al Alvarez (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £2.75) The Life and Death of Rochester Sneath Humphry...

no art Benny Green There are five stories in John Fowles's The E bony Tower * , but although all five are, in their *. , ve ry different ways, beautifully turned, it is the...

Bookend If the London Evening News fancied it was being smart when it "revealed" the winners of the 1979 Booker Prize for Fiction, then it is sillier than Bookbuyer thought....

My colleague, Will Waspe, an amusing scrivener but, alas, one notoriously fallible, got the business of the Criterion Theatre all wrong last week in his zeal to counterbalance...

Doing it to death Duncan Fallowell Bawdy Tales Director: Sergio Citti Writer: Pier Pasolini 'X' London Pavilion (82 minutes) Escort Girls Director: Donovan Winter 'X' Classic,...

hish allsorts 11° dneY Manes yisiting the Wexford Festival over he years is like a series of honey tnn cons. Maybe the first must a'w ays be the best, when the over whelming...

Old contemporaries Robin Young Last year the London Contempor ary Dance Theatre had a week at Sadler ' s Wells. To their surprise, they modestly claim, they sold out. Sadler...

While accepting the instruction and rebuke administered on the opposite page, Waspe continues to have some uneasy thoughts about such campaigns as 'Save Piccadilly' and 'Save...

John Lancaster Smith Since 1957, when for the first time the number of those travelling across the North Atlantic by air exceeded those travelling by sea, passenger shipping...

Nicholas Davenport It gives me enormous pleasure to prepare a budget speech which I know can never be delivered in the House of Commons. It is never allowed, of course, to...

Slice C and the national cak Bernard Hollowood Met a young economist the other day. Personable, neat, neither short nor long back and sides. Told me he was fed up with people...

FIFO or LIFO The Budget was expected by some to recognise the need for inflation accounting. The argument is supposed to be that, in a period of high inflation, the profits...