Span i s h vultures A voice of death was heard a g ain in the land in Geneva on Saturday when tape recordin g s of a new speech by Senora Dolores Ibarruri — La Pasionaria of...

It must have come as somethin g of an unpleasant surprise to the Prime Minister that the Scottish Labour Party has so totally and emphatically re j ected all proposals for...

Sir: Anthony Gibbs's comment (June 22) on Nicholas Ridley's article is fair. If we had to wait until his preliminaries had been put into effect before inflation could be...

Sir: If the Tory Party is to have any long-term future in this country, as an influential political force, it is surely only through a return to the kinds of policies advocated...

Sir: I was much interested in your recent articles, 'Enoch and the Tories', they being balm to his supporters fortunate enough to read them. But the overall picture remains, to...

From the Revd G. M. Scott Sir: A contemporary of yours has sent me your review of Alan Paton's Apartheid and the Archbishop (Spectator, June 1). If it is true that Edward...

Sir: I see Lord O'Neill of the Maine 11 .a s taken over the Notebook, I also rin tl , he hopes to explain Ulster to t"" English people. I am afraid the P° ° t r man failed in...

prostitution by the girl lain 1)1 ti e l - alls Jay (June 23) recalls the h e Concerned professional who (l er field invaded by all sorts of 4,tans t alent. Were Jay a...

liberalising the laws against soliciting would benefit the people who control prostitutes rather than the girls themselves, would only be correct if there weren't a radical...

Sir: I wonder if Mr. Laverick (Spectator June 8, 1974) has had second thoughts about the absence of ideological socialism in the plans of the Australian government now that a...

Sir: I have just returned from an extended tour in the Middle East to find that the memory of my old friend Humphry Berkeley appears to be becoming defective, to judge as last...

Sir: If Dr A. L. Rowse (June 15) knew as much about the French writers of maxims as he does about the Age of Elizabeth (but, of course, why should he?) he would not have...

The rescuing Shore Patrick Cosgrave, It greatly suits most newspapers — and most television and radio programmes for that matter — to concentrate for the moment on the heady...

since the Presbyterians of south-west land were 'planted' in north-east Ireland ames I in 1610 they have had a rough, gh time, and it has turned them into a gh, tough people....

A Senior Officer Whatever strategic posture is adopted by this country, what is certain is that there will be a major air threat with which to contend. I will not deal with the...

avid Hendrey e h r e was every reason for the consternation Ised within the plastics industry and el irk i iiere at the beginning of this year. when , s ab le evidence linked...

rs Gandhi's emma "clip Na,yar .s every reason why Mrs Gandhi should el ing on top of the world; she has earned k a drnission to the exclusive nuclear club; L 4 S broken the...

It is my custom to take opportunities of inquiring from time to time what success my Corridors meet with in the Town. There is no false modesty therefore when I tell you that I...

Homes in the property collapse Jane McLoughlin Among the present spate of property company collapses, by far the most significant socially is the break-up of the Stern empire,...

Unused technology Bill Grundy On the odd occasion when I perikive rather than vacant el' I sometimes hit on an icle$ exactly the same momen„ I someone else, and we both "...

Selling them sex John Link later The Brook Advisory Centres have just celebrated their tenth an niversary by holding an elegant reception, presided over by Lady Brook, amid...

Double standards Philip Kleinman At the risk, about which I have already been warned by my amiably aggressive colleague Bill Grundy, of trespassing on his territory, I would...

Friendly terms Peter Quince The young of wild birds and animals pop up all over the place at this time, and particularly in the garden, which is seldom without fledglings of...

The paradox and the orthodox Martin Sullivan The end of last month marked the hundredth anniversary of G. K. Chesterton's birth, so a word about his religious views will rrot...

Richard Luckett on the 'men of colour in timber deposits' Some of my best friends are racialists. They would not recognise the term, since they prefer the bisyllabic 'racist',...

Ronald Hingley The Gulag Archipelago. Alexander SolzhenitYri (Collins and Harvill Press £3.00) ,ihis is the first new work of Solzhenitsyn's to k ". Published since his recent...

JOHN NASH by John Summerson, Allen & Unwin. Box THE BRIDGES OF BRITAIN by Eric de Mare (Batsford 1954). Bell 32 Sutherland Place, London, W.2. YEARS OF CHILDHOOD by Aksakoff. C....

Francis King A Matter of Honour Philip Mason (Cape The two-hundred-year history of the India° Army from 1746 to 1947 poses two Mal n t r enigmas. Firstly, how did it come...

Charles Marowitz Film As A Subversive Art Amos Vogel (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £5.95) Sexual Alienation In The Cinema Raymond Durgnat (Studio Vista £4.50) Cineastes, like...

Llew Gardner The Workhouse Norman Longmate (Temple Smith E4.00) To be poor is to be degraded, sometimes by accident often by design. The degradation of poverty is as true today...

I have been brooding over this column for weeks, because it ill becomes a youngster like myself to denounce from the heights a book by the foremost British scholar of crime...

Peter Ackroyd The War Between The Tates Alison Lurie (Heinemann £2.50) Holiday Stanley Middleton (Hutchinson £2.75) The ironic elision in the title of Miss Lurie's latest...

Benny Green I find that over the years I have gradually developed the habit of looking at cricket photographs for the wrong reasons, or at least for reasons which could have...

Bookend The manifestos of new publishing ventures often suffer from over-enthusiasm and it is not hard to see why. For who, in command of their cool, would embark on a...

Wat Tyler Alan Bush (Sadler's Wells Theatre) Intermezzo Richard Strauss (Glyndebourne, Sussex) Not even Peter Simple it his spikiest could have devised so deadly a satire on...

Munster assaults reviewer Duncan Fallowell Horror Express. Director: Gene Martin. Stars: Peter Cushing, (Christopher Lee. 'X'(88 minutes); Godfather of Harlem. Director: Larry...

All those radio and television personalities who have established glowing reputations as inspired ad-libbers and spontaneous wits must feel sadly let down by Radio 4's...

Horse laugh 'Kenneth Hurren Birds of Paradise by Gaby Bruyere, English version by Michael Pertwee; with Moira Lister (Garrick Theatre, London). Sometime, which was evidently...

There was a moment of pure perfection at the memorial service for Duke Ellington. That was when Adelaide Hall sang the wordless countermelody to Creole Love Call, exactly as she...

Nicholas Davenport In the vast dealing room of a firm of brokers I know — the roar of voices on the telephone has now fallen to a quiet murmur — there is a huge chart on the...

Alex Rubner In The Economics of Gambling I advised surtax-payers to let their chauffeurs queue at the post office to acquire the maximum number of Premium Bonds. This is even...

The Confederation of British Industry is suggesting rather obviously that if the Government allows a wages free-for-all but maintains price controls there will be a dangerous...