The essence of the dispute between the National Coal Board and the National Union of Mineworkers lies in this: the NCB wish to enable the individual miner to earn more money by...

Sir: As I am now the only survivor of the British war correspondents who dropped with the airborne troops in Operation Market Garden, and the only one who was with 82nd US...

From Viscountess Bangor Sir: It is rather late to congratulate you on the series of brilliant and courageously outspoken comments on the horrifying Heath leadership — from...

Sir: The vain hope that the wage earners of this country can bepersuaded to limit their demands for' ever-increasing wages is to ignore the acquisitive nature of man. The'...

From Lord Beaumont of Whitley Sir: Mrs Quinn (November 9) takes Ine to task for making no criticism of the internment system in Northern Ireland , and the Liberal Party for not...

From Sir Ames Richards Sir: May I comment on the remark s about Piccadilly Circus (November 9 : ) ' A It is true that much of the Circus IS 7. disgrace and needs redeveloping,...

Sir: Mr Jon Elliott (November 9) suggests that libraries shoilld becorne charitable trusts so that authors cow tinue to give for no return the indefini te use of their work....

The continued suppression of the diaries of the late Richard Crossman is now no less than a scandal. For years we have been waiting for what those who have read them know to be...

L engYear City, the northern most airport in the ; 1 t ve rld, has just been opened. Few tourists will s ° oW it took Norway thirty years to overcome ,.n°v.let obstruction. By...

The Financial Times has decided to adopt the American definition of a billion which is 'one thousand million,' to be indicated in abbreviation as gm'. This is to supersede the...

The Royal Commission on the Press invites editors and journalists to suggest ideas that may be incorporated in their eventual report, and one such idea might well be the...

The House of Lords, the other day, Discussed, in their unruffled way, A Bill designed to nationalise All makers of hand-knitted ties. Lord Earnest, for the Tory peers, Arose,...

Not the least significant Occurrence of recent days has been the Election of Master Cledwyn Hughes to the pre-eminent position of Chairman to the Artisan Faction, over and...

Patrick Cosgrave It is necessary to return once more, reluctantly, to the tiresome question of the leadership of the Conservative Party, for some of the facts are being taken...

Arianna Stassinopoulos The air is still thick with speculation about who will succeed Mr Heath or whether Mr Heath will succeed Mr Heath. Since the obvious criteria have...

John Vincent-Smith Lisbon , 1Part from the virtual paralysis of the city " t 2 r ing the evening rush-hour and the profusion °' films which the 'Directorate of Shows' (n othing...

TODAY Violence begins at home Erin Pizzev On Wednesday, October 30, while Women's Aid were launching a book called Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear, about the...

New editors Bill Grundy I am a firm believer in Hutber' s Law, that immortal Golden Rti le once laid down by the City Editor of the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Patrick Hutber. As...

Stuck to their last Philip Kleinman "Smoke J. Walter Thomson Kingsize, the cigarette that cares. " A joke? Well, actually yes. But, like all jokes, it contains a serious...

{ Christmas presents... My convivial Friend, Sir Roger de Coverly, hath remarked with Justice that it happens very wet that Christmas should fall out in the middle of Winter....

Non-communicative Bernard Dixon Ever since I first read about the psychologists' discovery of nonverbal communication, some years ago, I have become increasingly conscious of...

%ening out Pamela Vandyke Price Recently I stayed at the Maison T olbooth at Dedham, a hotel apart .7,Tht the distinguished Restaurant o lbnoth — blessedly quiet, with 47)...

Cheapside on Tuesdays Martin Sullivan 'What ' can you do with a City church set down in a square mile of brick and concrete with only a handful of residents within its...

Christmas gift books Benny Green on the Gershwin years In that exotic compromise between backstage gossip and dialectical immaterialism I Thought of Daisy, Edmund Wilson uses...

Michael Parkinson ,.MY Life In Pictures Charles Chaplin (Bodley Head £6.95) I was reared in a cinema. It was the haven of my fa ntasies. I became a journalist because I wanted...

Kenneth Robinson Guinness B0012 of Records Norris and Ross McWhirter (Guinness Superlatives Ltd £1.70) The Shell Book of Firsts Patrick Robertson (Michael Joseph £3.50) The...

Beverley Nichols • Personal Record — 1920-1972 Gerald Brenan (•Ionathan Cape £6.00) Lurf o Among Lions Diana Holman-Hunt (Michael Joseph £6.00) . 1 . -re there any new stories...

Sammy Cahn The Great American Popular Singers Henry Pleasants (Gollancz £3.75) I find myself sitting here in my dressing room reading and, would you believe, reviewing Henry...

Sinful lady .Denise Robins Three Weeks Elinor Glyn (Duckworth £.1.95) Being a romantic writer myself it is with great interest that I review this romance which was produced in...

i ) eter Ackroyd sha - r- d . ak Richard Adams (Allen Lane £3.95) 1 ik iS not a profound or particularly havlesting novel, although it does try very cut u. Shardik is a large...

Bookend It is a funny thing, but whenever an outside public relations firm tries to involve itself with the promotion of books and authors, it almost invariably manages to...

Elwyn Jones on Barlow, Kojac and real life The President of Scientific Lie Detection Inc. couldn't understand what we put into British television police programmes. "Since your...

Horror-struck Duncan Fallowell And Now The Screaming Starts Director: Roy Ward Baker. Stars: Peter Cushing, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee. 'X' Rialto (91 minutes) Doctor Death...

Evan Anthony Life in Britain in November 1974 isn't all gloom; there is, after all, the Turner exhibition at the Royal Academy, and when shall we see its ' like again? Whatever...

those optimistic young trendies who applied for the job of artistic director at Guildford's Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, in succession to Laurier Lister who retires next June, can...

Second thoughts on the Budget Nicholas Davenport The first reaction on the Stock Exchange to a Budget speech Which might have been made by a Co nservative Chancellor — if...

Percy and the Krugerrands Bernard Hollowood I hope the people who are now converting their savings, or what's left of their savings, into Krugerrands know what they are doing....

Charles II. Stahl The US unemployment figure reached 6 per cent, matching a three year record, and layoffs continue to increase. It is our contention that the recession will be...

It is ironic that Anthony Wedgwood Benn is being nudged in the direction of realism not by the bosses, not by disgruntled savers, taxpayers and shareholders, but by workers. His...

Peter Diethelm The long-haul inclusive tour market has a relatively short history in the UK. While it is true that almost since the turn of the century special groups have been...

They 1974 looks certain to make the greatest collection of epitaphs the travel industry has ever known. Not, one might think, have to travel. But tour operators nave held the...

Leigh Knights There is no reason for holidaymakers to be apprehensive over their foreign holiday plans in 1975, in spite of events that have shaken people's confidence in 1974,...