There does not appear yet to have been perceptible movement towards reaching an agreement with Rhodesia. Lord Goodman has been to Salisbury and has returned from Mr Ian Smith...

A Helsinki conference, a disarmament treaty? There is much to be said for letting sleeping dogs lie; and although a European security conference becoming, or leading towards, a...

Mei / Passing by the British Museum the other day I was struck, and moved, by its sign: ' THE BRITISH MUSEUM. Admission Free,' and I felt momentarily ashamed that I had agreed...

When it comes to dispensing reassurance there is no better politician in Christendom than Mr Reginald Maudling. The most amiable of men — as well as one of the most intelligent...

By an industrial correspondent Fleet Street was dumbfounded on Saturday night. The Doomsday machine the em ployers and the National Graphical Association had created between...

Thursday, September 16: The London Group of Ten meeting was deadlocked over America's refusal to devalue the dollar, while, in the US, President Nixon announced a continuing...

Richard West Bristol, Wednesday One evening in June 1787, the Rev Thomas Clarkson, who had dedicated his future career to the destruction of the slave trade, rode into Bristol...

The message Sally Vincent Having grown contented with life in a raffia and sacking hut furnished with two hard cots and a piece of mirror with rag round the edge, whose...

Patriotism is enough Patrick Cosgrave Churchill's last words are not recorded. But it would be appropriate to daydream that they were the same as the words of Pitt: "My...

Philip Abrams on Plain man's sociology High vulgarization is a proper part of the history of a mature science. Lines of communication must be kept open between the ever more...

Conduct unbecoming The British in Africa Roy Lewis and Yvonne Foy (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 0.75) No Englishman could live in Africa for long, a sage observed at the turn of the...

Soviet censorship The Medvedev Papers Zhores A. Medvedev translated by Vera Rich (Macmillan. £4.95) Ten years ago a young Soviet scientist, Zhores Medvedev, began writing a...

Cloudcuckoolands Governing without Consensus Richard Rose (Faber £6.00) " Watching the English try to cope with their colour problem demonstrates that Ulster people with two...

Black and white Race, Intelligence and Education H. J. Eysenck (Temple Smith and New Society £1.50) A Rap on Race Margaret Mead and James Baldwin (Michael Joseph £2.20) Once...

Piers Paul Read and other novelists The Professor's Daughter Piers Paul Read (Alison Press £2.25) The Home Penelope Mortimer (Hutchinson £1.75) The Naive and Sentimenta/ Lover...

Pretty pictures Christopher Hudson It is a sad comment on the present adventurousness of the film industry that its chosen arbiters at the Cannes festival should have awarded...

On the Moors Kenneth Hurren The Royal Shakespeare Company's Othello at Stratford upon Avon looked a decent enough show when I saw it the other week : it lacked, perhaps, the...

Ringing off? Rodney Milnes This year's performances of Wagner's Ring at Covent Garden — we are three-quarters of the way through — are probably the last of the Schneider...

Sold a dummy Robin Young It was noticeable at the Ballet Rambert's premiere performance of the new piece by their director, Norman Morrice, that the audience was heavily...

I can't remember any foreign theatrical occasion that got such acres of British press space as Orghast, the work in progress ' of Peter Brook's International Centre for Theatre...

Theatre Opening in London: Awake and Sing, a revival of the Clifford Odets play opens the new season at Hampstead Theatre Club, September 27; Romance, a new musical pay...

Nicholas Davenport "The quiet Heathian revolution goes on." It would be considered a Poor joke if this sentence were repeated at the start of each money Page but it has got to...

Everyone knows that Saturday's Queen Elizabeth Stakes is the current target for the Brigadier Gerard entourage. I shall be surPrised if all the seven other acceptors stand their...

Mammoth firms tend to go on and on about the economies of scale. This is not surprising because they have few, if any, other justifications. But often those much-vaunted...

SIX HOPES SAVE TORY AT STIRLING Daily Telegraph Reporter MR DAVID ANDERSON, Conservative candidate in the Stirling and Falkirk by-election, saved his deposit by the party...

Clive Gammon It was odd to be on an extended fishing trip in Ireland this troubled summer and autumn. Odd and rather nasty, since I was amongst old friends in Belmullet, Co...

Pamela Vandyke Price Despite the people who write to me saying I am corrupting youth by suggesting one should drink wine, encouraging drunken driving by advocating a...

peter Quince The harvest is all over now, and a i quick and inconspicuous affair it s no wadays. Nothing better illustrates the agricultural revolution of the past twenty years...

If you cherish the view that Black Africa is a civilised place, I have a surprise or two in store for you. Here in Lagos, for example, the headline news is nearly always "VIPs...

Sir : I am sorry that there appears to be something of a fashion at present for sniping at Mr Auberon Waugh. His contributions in the form of book reviews in your journal are...

offensive and personally abusive letters such as that of Mrs Gledhill to Mr Waugh? Patricia Fletcher 4 Edith Terrace, London SW10 Sir: Colin Wilson, your reviewer of Graham...

From David Bell, JP, and J. W. Kennedy, MP for Gomac, Belfast Sir: Northern Irish readers are shocked at your leading article and Professor John Vaizey's contribution in your...

Sir: Your splendid editorial on the record of the Government to date (September 17) yet again endorses the sheer folly of the Prime Minister's excursion into Europe. How right,...

Sir: Nicholas Davenport's article ' Cheaper money is the spur' (September 11) was like a breath of fresh air. May I point out that high interest rates militate against...

Sir: Your article ' New Pensions for Old' (September 18) not only uses ' hopefully ' for it is to be hoped '; it goes one worse, substituting ' thankfully ' for 'we can be...

Sir: John Rowan Wilson commented (September 11) on a remark made at a recent intervieW by Dr Pat Byrne of the Department of General Practice at Manchester University. But let us...

Sir: The coverage given in the national press to our research report 1,000 Responses to English Literature, published by the National Foundation for Educational Research, has...

Sir: In 1967, a Labour study mission visited Israel, and subsequently wrote of that country as follows: "What is it that Israel has achieved? In an area where democracy is...