The SPECTATOR agrees with many of the opinions of Mr Enoch Powell. We wel- come his exposure of the absurdities of incomes policy and, indeed, of most forms of economic...

Signposts for the '90s AUBERON WAUGH Mr Richard Crossman seemed completely recovered from his bronchial influenza, com- plicated as it had been by pneumonia, when this...

Semites of Palestine, unite GEORGE GALE `His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people and will use their...

Brandt looks east Malcolm RUTHERFORD Bonn — For a man who keeps stressing that his is a government of internal reform, Herr Willy Brandt spends a lot of time on foreign...

White ties for Mr Wilson JOHN GRAHAM Washington — I never thought that my first donning of the white tie, in this land of egalitarianism, would be to honour, if that is the...

Pining for the palms LAURENCE MARTIN Mr Edward Heath's speech in Bristol last Friday and his remarks during his recent successful tour of Asia made it quite clear that he...

Enemies within BARBARA MAUDE So now it's 1970: European Conservation Year. How much, I wonder, will be con- served as a result? Of course, a great deal is happening. There has...

J. W. M. THOMPSON Lord Mancroft once tried to introduce a 'right of privacy' law rather like that which Mr Brian Walden is putting to the Commons this week, but he says he now...

The wearing of the red STELLA FitzTHOMAS HAGAN Perhaps I am unique in my blend of special knowledge—of communists, of Irish history, and of Russians. Special knowledge of all...

Health service, Russian style JOHN ROWAN WILSON On a recent visit to Moscow, I found myself engaged in conversation about medical ser- vices with a charming young...

Bricks without straw RHODES BOYSON For the last twenty years, local education authority spending on education has increased at an annual rate of 11 per cent in money terms or...

Private lives BILL GRUNDY You will all doubtless remember the story of the group of students of the Sceptic philosophy who saw their tutor drowning in the ditch. They listened...

CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS Doctor Ammendola thinks That we're all wrong about missing links. Looking at our shapes, We thought we were descended from apes, But the Professor declares...

REGINALD HERRING No more with a railway than with a battle can the commander hope to do it again and get it right. A railway throughout its life bears the stamp of its first...

From the 'Spectator,' 22 January 1870—It is said that secrecy has been again imposed upon the Bishops by the Pope,--rather super- fluously, we should say, for the amount of...

HENRY TUBE A Fairly Honourable Defeat Iris Murdoch (Chatto and Windus 35s) In her first published book, a study of Sartre, iris Murdoch wrote: The novel, the novel proper that...

STUART HOOD The Unperfect Society Milovan Djilas (Methuen 35s) On the night of 7-8 December 1953, Milovan Djilas, then a member of the Central Com- mittee of the Yugoslav...

Ali Pasha, 1741- 1822 William Plomer (Cape 35s) So well worth while is it to issue a new edition of William Plomer's absorbing bio- graphy of All Pasha that one wonders why the...

CHARLES STUART The Western Rising Charles Chenevix Trench (Longmans 50s) The career of Charles II's amiable bastard son, Monmouth, was at once purposeless and pathetic. He had...

RONALD HINGLEY The Rise of the Romanovs Vasili Klyuchev- sky, translated and edited -by Liliana Archi- bald, assisted by Mark Scholl (Macmillan 90s) Romanov Relations: The...

TREVOR GROVE The Hand-Reared Boy: 4 Novel for Our Times Brian W. Aldiss (Weidenfeld 30s) Brian W. Aldiss has recently been voted Britain's Most Popular Science Fiction...

KENNETH ALLSOP My Life With Martin Luther King Jr Coretta Scott King (Hodder and Stoughton 35s) When it was announced on television that President Kennedy was indeed dead, down...

HILARY SPURLING Some years ago, in The American Dream, Edward Albee created a disobliging old party named Grandma, among whose many needling ploys was a habit of droning on...

From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow: The Royal Navy in the Fisher Era: Vol IV, The Year of Crisis Arthur J. Marder (ouP 63s). Professor Marder, in his full-scale survey of the...

Squire Porter PAUL GRINKE Anyone leaving the Tate Gallery's splendid exhibition of Elizabethan painting with mad- rigals spinning round in his head, and sated with satin and...

All is forgiven PENELOPE HOUSTON Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (Odeon, St Martin's Lane, 'A') 1947 was the year in which the un-American Activities Committee discovered...

All change CLEMENT CRISP The announcement a week or so ago of the re-organisation of the Royal Ballet is one of those shocks that are needed to make us look w ith fresh eyes...

NICHOLAS DAVENPORT The Stock Exchange must have convinced itself that Mr Wilson is going to lose the election. I cannot otherwise see how the remarkable turn-round in the...

Sir: Sir Denis Brogan's 'table talk' is my favourite feature of the SPECTATOR (the days of Taper were also fine ones), and not least when he writes from these shores. Not infre-...

From P. W. Harland, Paul Mangan, Pro , fessor Earl Miner, Robert McKinnon, James Brock, Kenneth H. Ross, William F. Pickard, D. J. McCarthy. Margaret H. Brown, David Russell,...

Sir: It is often said that the Scots are their own worst enemies, and Stuart Hood's re- view (10 January) of T. C. Smout's A His- tory of the Scottish People is yet another...

Sir: The fog in the Mediterranean seems thicker than that in the Channel, and Mr Braham's irony (Letters, 17 January) is mis- placed. Most of Europe does not 'endure' BST...

Sir: I am sadly accustomed to finding it easier to impart information than under- standing to the inhabitants of the bottom right hand corner of England, whether they be...

offer us, your bewildered readers, a positive blast of sweetness and light. Each week we are able to feast our eyes on another ever- fresh defence of Harold, Jim, Barbara, Roy...

Sir: Owing to an unfortunate combination of typing and printing errors two facts in my article (17 January) appeared in garbled form. The population of Voroshilovgrad (Lugansk)...

Sir: Your Christmas quiz (27 December) gave Malaysia as one of the federations associated with the British Empire, with the Malay States as an extra point. The Federa- tion of...

Sir: Sitting by a blazing log fire on Boxing Day, I read with piquant interest the remarks in 'Spectator's notebook' (27 December) about the demise of the Yule Log; about the...

Sir: With reference to Mr Auberon Waugh's article in your issue of 3 January, I must point out that on no occasion has Mr John Cordle ever issued a letter to the press from this...

Wally and Ted JOHN WELLS It was in 1936 that Ted Windsor, a simple, unassuming Cockney, made the decision of a lifetime. Faced with the hair-raising choice of catching the...

PHILIDOR Prof. J. Haluinbirek (1st Prize, Sehachblinter, 1963). White to play and mate in three moves; solution next week. Solution to No. 474 (Benedek: 16/4p3/4P1B1/...

No. 589: True feeling Set by 1, M. Crooks: A recent note in the Times diary revealed that John Masefield suffered from sea-sickness and originally wrote 'I must go down to the...

SIMON RAVEN A bad start. One of our party had a passport photograph which was taken ten years ago, and the passport official at Venice airport opined that it no longer bore a...

Across I Sound standard (7, 5) 9 Literary careerist (9) 10 'Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit The of beauty I remember yet' (Dryden) (5) 11 Instruction superfluous to...

TREVOR GROVE In season the advantages of holidaying in Britain or Ireland are no longer as evident as they were when the chief of them had a good deal to do with freedom from...

JOHN BULL There are really only two ways to stay in your own home when you go abroad. One is to load it all on to the luggage rack of the car. The other is to have a spare one...

Vienna: 'Festival of Vienna', including Beet- hoven commemoration, 23 May - 21 June Salzburg: Music Festival, 26 July - 30 August Switzerland Lucerne: Music festival, 14...