Of course Mr Carr was right to accuse the Chancellor of presenting in his mini-Budget a bag of small goodies designed to make the Government popular enough to face an early...

sustained and that leads to equitable stability in Cyprus is to be welcomed, the action of the Turkish government in taking the responsibility on itself for moving in supPort of...

The evidence against President Nixon is now too strong to admit of any course save impeachment. It has always been the case that the law of the United States was over-finicky in...

The changing balance of power in Japnese politics, and the decline of the influence of Mr Tanaka, is something that has, as yet, made little impact at this end of , the western...

From Miss B. Thomas Sir: Ever since their February defeat, Tory politicians and journalists have been agonising about the formulation of a credible and attractive policy for the...

Peyton's posture as a freedom-loving patriot extremely nauseating. To quote but two examples .of his actions while a Minister which belie his words: the imposition of compelling...

Sir: Mr Simon Harris argues that the EEC's agricultural policies are a success (Letters, July 20) and that if it weren't for the CAP we would all have to pay more. He is wrong....

have just discovered that all-time favourite piece of music, the final movement of Beethoven's 'Ninth Symphony,' the 'Ode to Joy,' is the official anthem of the EEC and I now...

Sir: The result of the last general election, and many public expressions of opinion since, have shown that the powe r r-sharing which we have been strongly pressing on Ulster...

will probably be no substantial majority anyway. The matter is so urgent that party leaders should get together at once — not even wait another month! To stop the two big...

From Dr Elizabeth Elliott Sir: Because "Population Count-down" IS being 'sold' to the public as an important money-maker, whose funds are to be used to keep the FPA going as...

granny' which you published in The Spectator (July 13). It is the finest short appraisal of the way things have moved in the last decade here in Britain, and the parallel which...

the diabolical crimes being committed in the name of humanity; murder of the unborn child for social reasons, contraceptions for children without parents' consent or knowledge;...

Sir: In your comment (July 13) on the deteriorating state of affairs in Bangladesh, you write: "Unless stern measures are soon taken, it may be necessary for India again to...

Sir: I write in ignorance of whether notions of radicalism and social justice characterise the pages of your magazine. However, I am led to believe that you espouse-the...

Sir: I think that the central issue in the National Health Service controversy is one of 'human nature'. By this I mean that we must retain 'the system' in something like its...

A fool and your money Patrick Cosgrave Mr Ian Aitken of the Guardian, in a rather jolly portrait, once referred to Mr Denis Healey as a thug, and made it clear that, in his...

With the 150th anniversary of his death Byron has been much in the news. The books can be left to take care of themselves: what about the visual relics, so much more appealing?...

a few suggestions of gaps at that admirable V and A show. I may be wrong or have overlooked it, but I didn't notice a portrait of Walter Scott, whom Byron admired above all the...

To Labour with love A Labour Party candidate The author, who was a defeated Labour candidate contrary, to put himself forward in the same intere in February, intends, despite...

The military options Military Correspondent The Turks decided, predictably, that a coup which succeeded through military means must be removed by military means. In this they...

Bubble at bursting point Joel Cohen The impression which the newspaper obituary writers left in their pen portraits of the late Senor Juan Peron, as being the only force o^...

California red Geoffrey Wagner pv. ,e happy to seek out, where we could, the tk u ts chtueau x still se lli n g within $3-$4 a bot- s . For a while there was a lot of a good...

There is nothing so scandalous to a Government, so Mr Harold Wilson tells me, as defamatory Papers and Pamphlets. Equally, he concedes, there is nothing so difficult to tame as...

Candour and privacy Arthur S. Wigfield The role of marriage society is possibly being undermined by those who regard the love, tenderness and sense of sexual propriety...

Gin trap at the Elephant John Linklater 'There is no doubt about it, down at the Elephant, but that Barbara gets top marks for singlemindedness and for tiot being too finicky...

Hugh Jenkins gets it wrong Bill Grundy If You've got a moment or two to spare, I'll tell you all I know about Hugh Jenkins. He's sixty-six, he's g°t a grey pointed beard, he's...

How to• save money Philip Kleinman Think small. That, as we have already mentioned, is the advice being given to newspapers by those who believe that reducing page size is the...

Theological revolutionaries Martin Sullivan A distinguished theologian, until recently a bishop in the Church of Ireland, and now a professor at the University of Manchester,...

Excess story Peter Quince The nettle-beds are a formidable sight at present: a thought which occurred to me as I began to clear one which had invaded a patch of land where it...

J. Enoch Powell on a politician of destiny These two additions to the already enormous Churchill literature present the greatest possible contrast. Pe!ling's compression of the...

Patrick Gordon Walker Willy Brandt: Portrait of a Statesman Terence Prittie (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £3.95) I know, like and admire Willy Brandt — but rather more this side...

Roy Fuller , R ( .9. b ert Herrick 1591-1674 George Walton Scott k'31dgwick and Jackson £4.50) i r n his preface, Mr Scott effectively quotes from .1-rYtton Strachey about the...

Alan Brien Bukhcirin and the Bolshevik Revolution Stephen Cohen (Wildwood House £4.50) Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky — then whom? The common reader can probably name, at most, only...

Rhodes Boys on The Protest Virus Peter Evans (Pitman E2.50) There has never been a completely settled time when men lazed contentedly on beaches and youth foreswore revolt....

John Bricicut on the new season of Proms Nowadays even the Palace of Westminster and the Tower of London seem less durable than the BBC Promenade Concerts whose eightieth...

Dead thrills Duncan Fallowell The Black Windmill Director: Don Siegel Stars: Michael Caine, Donald Pleasance, Janet Suzma 'A' DTIpire, Leicester Square (106 min' utes). La...

Womb with a view henneth Hurren 2ediPus Tyrannus, adapted by Gail .Ka dernacher from the Greek of SolThocles (Chichester Festival T heatre) Ch the Cambridge University Wights...

The hidden banking crisis Nicholas Davenport One of these days, while ignorant politicians at Westminster are devising new schemes for nationalising the most efficient private...

Charles R. Stahl The shock to the free world economy created by the quadrupled oil prices was still felt when the Herstatt Bank collapse threw another chilling shadow over the...