of the week H undreds of Palestinian civilians living in refugee camps outside Beirut were massacred while the Israeli army surround- ed the camps. Following the assassination...

Angry Liberal attitudes Colin Welch Bournemouth `W e always hope that the voice of reason will prevail,' declared Coun- cillor Meadowcroft, prospective Liberal candidate for...

G iven that trade unionists are, on the face of it, no more likely to want other People to die than anybody else, why did the strikers at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cam- bridge...

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Wine and the Press Council Auberon Waugh N ext month marks the launching of the Spectator Wine Club with a monthly wine column promoting its wares which will be written by...

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Patrick Desmond T he weekend massacre of Palestinians in Beirut gives Anti-Semites International their chance. Hitherto the case against Israel has not been clear-cut. Whatever...

Andrew Brown Gothenburg W ill this prove a Bourbon restoration? The Social Democrats won last Sun- day's election at a walk, after backing away from their party manifesto...

I was in Monte Carlo was in 1967. The most recent visit was last weekend for the funeral of the greatly Mourned Princess Grace. In essence, Monte Carlo doesn't seem to have...

Nicholas von Hoffman Washington T he Russians may have made introspec- tion a national characteristic, but the Americans have made it an industry. This is the land of the...

Jo Grimond T am not a psephologist. I cannot divine 1 from public opinion polls who is going to win the general election. Every politician is a bit of a racing tipster and, if...

The Liverpool Daily Post gives an ac- count of a new gas, patented by a Mr J. Dixon, which will, it believes, supersede coal gas. The gas, which is called `metallic gas,' is...

Peter Paterson T he gulf in understanding between the trade union movement and our other national institutions — most notably the Press and the government — appears to have...

The 9 October issue of The Spec- tator will carry the first clue in the Great Spectator Treasure Hunt. Each issue of The Spectator for 12 weeks will contain a clue, which will...

After the massacre Paul Johnson arbaric,' shouted the Daily Star on its front page. 'Bloody Barbaric!' was the Sun's headline, going one better; though it was relegated to...

Milton undiluted To Rudd M onetarism may not be the most fashionable economic philosophy to- day, but its prophet speaks on, undiminish- ed and as fervent as ever. Last Monday...

The patriotism of Subhas Bose Sir: May I, as author of a recent biography of Subhas Bose (The Lost Hero, Quartet Books) correct the somewhat simplistic and misleading...

Sir: Next week there occurs what 1 ; / / Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fabl e calls a 'palindrome date': 28.9.1982. A date, that is, which reads the salv e backwards as...

Sir: Mr Auberon Waugh is less than fair in his innuendo (18 September) that Mr John Bosomworth, the solicitor for Mr and Mrs Tom Danby, was responsible for the in- convenience...

Shades of disbelief Patrick Marnham A. the beginning of his second volume of autobiography, Ways of Escape, Graham Greene quoted a letter from Flaubert to his mother: 'As my...

James Hughes-Onslow Ways of Escape Graham Greene (Penguin £1.50). A second autobiography by the Spec- tator's first film critic. He watched 400 films in the 1930s and wrote...

Richard Ingrams P .C. Wodehouse Frances Donaldson ( Weidenfeld £10.95) P .C. Wodehouse Frances Donaldson ( Weidenfeld £10.95) A 'though I had known Plummy Wodehouse most of my...

Peter Quennell W e have not had many schools, coteries or successfully organised 'movements' in the history of British art; and it is their record as the founders of such a...

Richard West T he BBC, which is 60 years old this year, recently put out a television film on the first 30 years of its radio service. Those like mYself, who are old enough to...

Christopher Booker O ne of my more enduring cricket memories is of sitting across the Severn from Worcester Cathedral, on a damp April day in 1948, to watch the great...

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Peter Paterson T here they lie stranded, the Gang of Four and their 24 Labour acolytes, the one Conservative a little way off, ostracised in the cruel way of nature because of...

No sign of a Hall-mark Mark Amory The Rules of the Game (Haymarket) A Prelude to Death in Venice (Riverside) T he striking characteristic of middle- period Peter Hall is his...

Fruits of battle John McEwen Merry Setch is 46. He is a Londoner 1 but since the late Sixties has lived in Wales, where he runs the painting depart- ment at Cardiff School of...

Party-time Jann Parry Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal (Sad- ler's Wells) T he first thing you notice about 1980, a Piece by Pina Bausch is the rest of the audience. The...

Tit for tat Richard Ingrams o n Did You See..? Mr Richard Hoggart ‘.../ delivered a little lecture about the dangers of the satellite and cable revolu- tion. Hoggart, who many...

Peter Ackroyd A Young woman, played by Nastassia Kinski, arrives in New Orleans; she is has by her brother who within minutes n as donned a black vest and starts talking in al...

Language Jeffrey Bernard L ast Saturday I went to Newbury for th e races and there was a nice little to do on the train with a ticket inspector. I'd bough; a race train...

Stirring Taki Chicago m y invitation to the Phil Donahue show came about after the editor of the American Spectator, Bob Tyrrell, suggested I write an essay on lousy women...

Jaspistos reports: Competitors were asked for a poem in which a testator bequeaths part of himself to some public figure or body. You may be interested to know that the skull of...

To enable competitors to economise on postage, entries for one or more weeks of the competition and crossword may be posted together under one cover addressed `Competition...

No. 1237: Lost deposit Set by Jaspistos: Last year, according to The Times, a Mr Tarquin Fintimlinbin- whainbimlim Bus Stop-F'Tang-F'Tang-Ole Biscuit Barrel stood for...

Impressive Raymond Keene Moscow T he most startling performance in the Moscow Interzonal so far has been that of the Cuban Grandmaster, Guillermo Gar- cia. After 10 of the...

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