The initial horror at the news from Kolwezi is understandable. It is certainly understandable that Europeans Should be particularly shocked by the murder of Euro Peans, though a...

Selwyn and the real world Ferdinand Mount 'You will find Selwyn a very modest man.' It sounded unlikely. The description, from an old parliamentary ally of his, did not seem...

First things first in a memorable week for Ole. At the beginning of last week I got married again. She for the first time, me for the last. Now, you might think that the hoots,...

A journalist stands up Auberon Waugh In sixteen years' full membership of the National Union of Journalists I have never had occasion to attend a union meeting and never once...

Desmond Stewart Cairo The flight to Jerusalem which made Sadat a World figure at the cost of dividing the Arabs has been paralleled by an internal Initiative — towards...

Nicholas von Hoffman Washington The past few days, the television has taken on a late Sixties hue. Shots of enormous, bulge-bellied, grey-green airtransports humping their way...

William Chislett San Sebastian Kostituzioko Enparantza (Basque for Constitution Square) is the new name of the Square in the old quarter of this most elegant of Spanish cities....

Shiva Naipaul Teheran The house, as is usual in Persia, was hidden behind high walls. Its style was vaguely Iberian facade washed in white, red-tiled roof, a ground floor...

The boom town atmosphere is oppressive. Fifteen years ago Teheran had a population of about three million. Today, it is approaching five million. This seems to cause neither...

John Erickson On 8 may, that enemy whom Sir Neil Cameron so recently described as being common to ourselves and to China and whose lair is Moscow hammered on China's...

Lord Carnarvon on Wednesday, in distributing the prizes to the medical students of King's College Hospital, made a remarkable statement about the chances offered by the...

Richard West Dublin Each time I visit Ireland I am more amazed by its affluence; indeed the Republic seems caught up in a spending spree comparable to Macmillan's England or...

Peter Paterson British Aerospace, along with British Shipbuilders and the British National Oil Corporation the newest of our nationalised industries, is in a sore predicament....

Divining the future Nicholas Davenport The City has become extremely sour. The hope that I expressed last week that the new Treasury 'tap' stocks would be activated has not...

Sir: The Leslie Chapman affair raised some disturbing issues, although anyone familiar With government or official bodies will feel indignation rather than surprise. I hope I am...

Sir. Your readers must have been fascinated by Auberon Waugh's tales (20 May) of the vast sums extorted on Fleet Street by not very skilled, not very hard or r eBularly...

Sir: John Biggs-Davison, purporting to review Dervla Murphy on Northern Ireland (20 May), considers that no civil rights are now lacking there. True, in theory many wrongs have...

Sir: Ferdinand Mount (13 May) refers to the 'obstinate, deep-rooted stability of the British political system' which has allowed the present Government to ride roughshod over...

Sir: Readers of my review (20 May) of Harriet Waugh's novel Mother's Footsteps must have been puzzled by the last sentence of my penultimate paragraph. It should have concluded:...

Sir: Auberon Waugh's rather pessimistic article on the baby famine (6 May) raised some interesting points about our whole approach to childbirth. Would it not help if mothers...

An apostolic succession Andrew Boyle Cambridge Between Two Wars: T.E.B. Howarth (Collins £6.50) Nearly a third of all Cambridge men who served in the Great War were killed or...

Auberon Waugh With the late publication of Book Four Harold Zvans completes his five-volume manual and gives us the first opportunity of taking the five together, as we were...

Michael Wharton The Dying Gaul and Other Writings David Jones (Faber £8.50) David Jones (1895-1974), artist and writer, author of In Parenthesis, certainly one of the greatest...

Hans Keller Man In Marxist Theory and the Psychology of Personality Lucien Save transL ated by John McGreal (The Harvester F ress £16.50) if scientific achievement can be...

HUNTING SKETCHES by Anthony Trollope; 'Jorrocks Country' by Uvedale Lambert; 'The England of Nimrod and Surtees, 1815-54' and 'English Country Lite, 1780-1830' by E.W. Bovill....

Benny Green The Most of S. J. Perelman (Eyre Methuen £7.50) Eastward Hal S. J. Perelman (Eyre Methuen £3.95) Some books are to be tasted, said Bacon, an observation whose...

Paul Ableman E nemies of the System Brian Aldiss Cape £3.50) There are two chief kinds of science fiction. 'The first, which I devoured in adolescence, b ill Ight more suitably...

Alastair Best Piranesj (Hayward Gallery) Piranesi is a paradox. Throughout his life he liked to be known as a Venetian architect Yet he spent most of his productive years in...

Hot topics Ted Whitehead Lee Enfants du Placard (Camden Plaza, AA) l 'es Enfants du Placard ends with an 80cond shot of its hero lying on a bed with his ' L ace to the wall —...

Two Peters Rodney Milnes Peter Grimes (Covent Garden) Peter Grimes (Cardiff) Euryanthe (Coliseum) Like all successful operas, Grimes invites, if not indeed demands, a wide...

0 tu Firenze Geoffrey Wheatcroft I Vesprl Maisel (Teatro Communale, Florence) It was in Florence, also at the Maggio Musicale festival, that the Sicilian Vespers was...

Stylish John McEwen Art is a constant recycling of ideas, and even the best and most generally acclaimed artists have found it difficult to sustain the volution of even one of...

Cults Richard Ingrams I think I may be nearing the end of my tether as a television critic. I find I am beginning to shout insults at people on the screen in a very loud voice...