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On the principle enmeshed in the negotia- tions to effect British entry into the Com- mon Market, the SPECTATOR is not in two minds. Its position is unequivocal. It has been for...

Wednesday 10 February: the findings of the Wilberforce committee on power workers' pay caused some confusion between disputing Parties. In the CommOns Mr Can interpreted It as...

To refer or not to refer HUGH MACPHERSON The issue of the Common Market has had just as curious an effect on the political world as one or two wayward ladies in the past. It...

Our Review of Books begins this week with two discussions of the politics of Georg Lukacs, who is fashionable in England for the same reasons as Noam Chomsky, whom I mentioned a...

I would like to add nay tribute to the many rightly paid to Larry Burrows, the English photographer who established his reputation as one of the great war photographers with his...

Luktics's most famous work, History and Class Consciousness, has for some time now been the sort of book with which any intel- lectual on the progressive merry-go-round would...

The liberals (and others) of Oxford still rumble on about the Dutschke affair, con- cerned more about the deterioration of the relations with their students than with Dutschke...

People I came across over the weekend and early this week seemed to be treating the issue of new money much in the way they treat major inclemencies of the weather, sporting...

My own answer would most certainly be 'Yes'. I go further, and suggest that native as well as foreign students, if they so feel inclined, could do worse than take note that some...

In response to an invitation that promised 'a continually changing tableau,' our art critic, Evan Anthony, went along last week to the Angela Flowers Gallery in Lisle Street,...

A babble of tongues MERCURIUS OXONIENSIS GOOD BROTHER LONDINIENSIS, The publick prints will have informed you how the party of learnin g at Oxon prevailed this Tuesday in the...

A day in the life of God? EDWARD NORMAN It is a disagreeable thing when a man who has been in a position of confidence subse- quently chooses to compose an attack on his...

After Fulton, the pseudo-revolution C. H. SISSON Whether or not new wine is being poured into the Civil Service these days—and it has been habitual ever since the Fulton...

Simple questions By an Economist When Mr Barber puts his Budget on the Dispatch Box next month, the chances are that he will become the twelfth successive Chancellor of the...

From the 'Spectator,' 18 February 1871— Mr. Cardwell brought forward his measures for the Reorganization of the Army on Thursday night, and they are unexpectedly satisfactory...

Words per minute BENNY GREEN As your eyes race along this line of print, you are embarking on an essay of approxi- mately fourteen hundred words. Nobody has actually counted...

REVIEWaBOOKS Elie Kedourie on Lukacs T. G. Rosenthal on Jonathan Cape Reviews by Barbara Hardy, Peter Linehan Percival Spear and Auberon Waugh Tibor Szamuely: Lukacs's History...

In his preface, Lukfics tells us that ever since his childhood he had felt 'hatred and contempt' for life under capitalism. Lukacs's childhood as is well-known, was that of a...

Regular subscribers to the SPECTATOR may be assured that the copies they have missed during the postal strike will be forwarded to them as soon as postal deliveries are...

Poetry of the 'Nineties edited by R. K. R. Thornton (Penguin 40p) To call The Romantic Agony a model for literary historians is to risk the insult lurking in the term. Literary...

An annual prize of £500 will be awarded by the SPECTATOR to whoever In the opinion of the Judges, submits the best piece of original, unpublished, new writing of not less than...

The Old World and the New, 1492.1650 I, H . Elliott (cup paperback 60p) br Elliott is a leading authority on the his- tory of early modern Europe. In The Revolt of the Catalans,...

be: Shod story category Kingsley Amis, novelist, poet and essayist, the film of whose book Take a Girl Like You is currently on general release. Descriptive reporting: Brian...

It was certainly time someone spoke up for Lord Linlithgow. Since Wavell was a wartime and winding-up ruler and Lord Mountbatten a coroneted undertaker, he was in fact the last...

In Oslo (or so I have been told) there is a huge park, arranged in great avenues of giant statues, all nude, cold and capering in tlfe brumous air. Every day, coachloads of...

Company histories are usually, after the memoirs of second-rate generals and cabinet ministers, perhaps, the most boring books in the world, prompted as they inevitably are by a...

Beneath the inconsistent skies Be moves, in sun and sudden rain, The rinsed air following, his eyes Undaunted, as if unaware Of what might turn aside their stare And mitigate...

9 Position 10 Ablush 12 Cleave 13 Momentum 15 Estrangement 18 Dis- inherited 23 Location 24 Solace 26 Trivet 27 Forester 28 Resist 29 Carapace. Down : 1 Pap- acy 2 System 3...

No. 1469 DAEDALUS No prize is offered this week. The solution will appear in next week's issue. Across 1 Fish - glue? A delicacy from Yarmouth, no doubt (7, 5) 9 Meagre...

Come back Snow White, all is forgiven CHRISTOPHER HUDSON The Daily Mirror editorialised last week about the disgusting trends in present-day films, instancing Myra...

The quality of Mercer KENNETH HURREN Bernard Link, the drama critic protagonist of David Mercer's play, After Haggerty, though a man who bears as stoically as any the...

Disturbances Patrick Skene CATLING `Some viewers,' an announcer warned us before The Rainhirds, Clive Exton's 'Play for Today' (nee 1), `may find certain scenes dis- turbing.'...

Onegin no tonic RODNEY MILNES This is a good month for those who believe in opera as drama. Following Sadler's Wells's approachable Twilight•of the Gods, the Royal Opera...

A new kind of charity TONY PALMER There is a distinct collection of smart ladies in London without whom good works would be almost unthinkable. They turn up with aristocratic...

Sir: Hugh Macpherson, in his arti- cle 'A Royal Commission on Sin', evades several important issues. What is a data bank? He does not say. The idea that data bankers will have...

Sir: As general manager of one of the 'cultural clients of the Arts Council', referred to in 'The Spec- tator's Notebook' (13 February), may I raise two points arising from his...

Sir: Your review by Angus Maude MP of Down with the Poor shows how much the book is needed: he welcomes it, yet like so many men on the side of private enterprise he seems to...

Letters from Porcus-Piscis Orie- lensis, Gerald McDonald, Dr Rhodes Boyson, Alan Alexander, Rosemary Collins, Peter Redd- away, L. E. Weidberg, Philip Norman and others....

Sir: For an historian Professor Trevor-Roper has a curiously haughty attitude towards docu- ments. His review of Dr Dodd's hook on Jesus is so petulant that it fails to situate...

Sir: Whilst welcoming your new practice of inviting people of various parties to contribute ar- ticles to the SPECTATOR (we may soon—who knows?—see an article by a...

Sir: While I have never had much sympathy with the political atti- tudes which colour the editorial stance of the SPECTATOR, I have al- ways, until recently, had consider- able...

February) 'that Chomsky's philosophy is merely a by-product of his politics; but the two certainly hang togeth- er.' In the context, this can only be intended as a criticism....

Sir: Christopher Booker's funda- mentalist review of Dr Storr's Hu- man Aggression, which would be more suitable for the pages of The Voice of Prophecy, begins with the myth of...

Sir: Can you tell me if your re- viewer Auberon Waugh is jealous of Hunter Davies? Philip Norman The Sunday Times, Thomson House, London wcl

Sir: Mr Amis has accused me in your columns (30 January) of in- accuracy, illiteracy and incom- petence. Now he goes too far, for in admitting (13 February) that I wrote about...

Sir: With his full-blooded enthusi- asm for the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia Commander Edgar Young (13 February) at least con- firms his position as an orthodox...

NICHOLAS DAVENPORT 'The options remain open' was the headline applied not only to the Rolls-Royce crisis but to the oil crisis in the Middle East. As this was the slogan of Mr...

A spectacular cavalry charge over the final flight, resulting in a triumph for the handi- capper, characterised last Saturday's Schwep- pes, and I, at least, felt considerably...

When Lord Rothermere finally gave up the cares of chairmanship at Associated Newspapers, it was the general consensus in Fleet Street that his departure marked the beginning of...

Peter Paterson is the eupeotic industrial cor- respondent of the Sunday Telegraph. He sees the progress of the Industrial Relations Bill like Milton saw the Puritan Revolution...

Sir Kenneth Keith is a merchant banker and head of Hill Samuel. His bank is not growing like it was and had a severe setback recently in failing to take over Metropolitan...

Chartists have a capacity for tendentious drivel but as what they say affects the action of their customers a degree of sceptical acknowledgement of their existence must be...

Sir Kenneth Keith has firmly asserted, in the SPECTATOR and elsewhere, that the Stock Exchange should not be subject to public regulation. He has seen that the agreeable...

Last month the nice girl who cooks for the SPECTATOR's contributors' lunchroom wrote to Tesco Stores with a minor complaint to receive immediately a telephone call from Sir Jack...

The trouble, it now appears, with this scenario is that it took no account of Vere Harmsworth, who has not taken particularly kindly to the general suggestion that he has...

There's been a lot of anguished talk, I see, over the suitability of professional journalists, whose direct acquaintance with the mud, blood and conflict of the soccer field is...

11 ‘ 1 , - 17L1 Pamela VANDYKE PRICE The typewriter keys had been sharpened preparatory to my delivering the written equivalent of a slap on the chops with a wet flounder to...

Walking along. Chiswick Mall the other morning, I found myself wondering whether I might not after all be the type of man who could be happy living on a boat, this par- ticular...

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