Survival International is effective in helping tribal peoples to represent their rights at an international level. This is an urgent problem, for many aboriginals face the...

t i rs Thatcher is said to have a great admiration for Mr arold Macmillan. If admiration means no more than " a l kised affection — a regard for the former prime minister's 1 1...

George Gale Mrs Thatcher is not being well-served by the Northern Ireland Secretary, Mr Humphrey Atkins. Neither is Northern Ireland. Come to that, none of us is: his flight...

!III. as been strangely ironic to see the role of , m "lef Hom e Office spokesman played n t h e P r a ,t s e do i de p ortation affair' by Mr Timothy t `la r l on. T h e plan...

Peter Nichols Rome The politicians have gone off on their holidays leaving behind them a new government, rather as overwrought children unwillingly leave the sandcastle they...

Desmond O'Grady Rome The sun had barely left a cloudless sky when Giuseppe Sirchia and his wife were shot dead outside Palermo's grey, fortress-like Ucciardone prison. The...

Alistair Home !always wanted to visit Dresden to see the k li thulous treasures which that remarkable l u , a roque monarch, Augustus the Strong, "ad collected there (plus 354...

Eric Moonman There are many members of the mental health service in Britain who have never heard of Alexander Podrabinek, and even fewer who have read his book, Punitive...

I lehard West t i : r i , c) nithe first days of April 1975, almost all die journalists in Indochina knew that Vietnam and Cambodia were about rt ; fall to the communists....

Anthony Blair Last week's case of the Patel children, three Indian boys who were deported from England on Tuesday after delay , and ministerial embarrassment, emphasised the...

Tim Congdon Britain's national economic hypochondria has spawned a proliferation of statistics in recent years. Although they may not have improved the health of the patient,...

in thinking the WIi Ainson' head of Cromwell more likely to be genuine ia than the '1 ..1....t.:...' h Durnol ireead. L.820 years of friendship with Canon Wil. the son and his...

Sir: May I reply to the letters from Mr Aston and Mr Southworth which appeared In your edition of 11 August. I was not attempting to stage a coup in the Transkei as Mr Aston...

Sir: So many extraordinary, and even unhallowed events are permitted to take place in some churches these days that one is hardly surprised at anything; but the shooting of a...

Sir: Your correspondent of 28July under the title of 'Hooson's law' reveals some commonplace misunderstandings on the subject of the need to stop the taxation of productivity....

Sir: My attention has been drawn to the letter on air fares, in your 4 August edition, and I would like to correct certain facts. The return fare economy from London to Paris...

John Scott The Execution of Mayor Yin and other stories Chen Jo-hsi Trans. Nancy lng and Howard Goldblatt (Allen & Unwin £5.95) From the outset of the Cultural Revolution in...

Alan Watkins The Seven Deadly Sins Today Henry Fairlie (New Republic Books $10) Randolph Churchill once wrote or compiled a picture book on English country houses, and...

Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd The Gentlemen's Clubs of London Anthony LejeUne & Malcolm Lewis (Macdonald and Jane's E25) 'A good club is much more than a mere catering...

Francis King Palace of Green Days Fred Urquart (Quartet £5.95) I remember how, as a schoolboy, 1 read Fred Urquart's first novel, Time Will Knit, during a sweltering summer...

avin Stamp lam surprised that young men don't make raore use of the Pointed Arch', observed Qharles Frederick Annesley Voysey one ening during the Blitz, a year before he ed in...

Peter Jenkins Othello (Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford.) Othello's tragedy derives from his consuming love for Desdemona and hers for him. Meticulous casting is necessary...

Old Mods Ted Whitehead Quadrophenia (Plaza 1) Quadrophenia (X) is a splendid wallow in ferocious nostalgia: 1963 teenagers stuck in dead-end jobs, lumbered with beaten...

Immortal Rodney Milnes The Ring (London Coliseum) One of the greatest virtues of the ENO Ring, one component of which is now nine years old, is negative: it is not...

Quite right Richard Ingrams In its account of the recent cricket match at Hermitage, Berkshire, between the XIs of S. Courtauld and C. Benson, the Newbury Weekly News...

Day in the life Taki Sabrina, the future Queen of England — I hope — is the perfect mate for Wales. Her attributes are by now well-known: she has money, she is photogenic, has...

In-depth Jeffrey Bernard Get this: 'Charlotte Rampling's eyes, for instance; those twin orbs of ineffable other-worldliness in whose depth cinema audiences have floundered...

Named places Geoffrey Wheatcroft This Week's Reactionary Cause is the pre servation of traditional placenames. A sinister movement is under weigh to make us use he local...