of expressing their opinion of the Conservative, Labour and Liberal parties. They do so very conscious of the ' Liberal revival' which has shown itself in recent by-elections,...

Whatever else, the events of the past fortnight have established that the preservation of the Russo-American detente is the prime object of the foreign policies of President...

Sir: In my view Beverley Nichols (October 27) overstates his case with regard to Evelyn Waugh. Waugh may not have been a gentleman, but to be born the son of an affluent...

Sir: The fascinating but sad story of the Dalai Lama told by George Patterson (October 20) prompts me to suggest to the Hebdomadal Council'of Oxford University that the least...

Sir: If we are to believe Mr Powell — and a lot of us do — then the root cause of our present economic trouble is simply government overspending. In the sacred name of growth Mr...

Sir: C. J. Arthur's first letter (October 13) claimed that the EEC only affected " the margins of national sovereignty" and so no anti-marketeer should vote for Wilsonian...

for Marxism to be " knocked right out of the mainstream of British politics "is flummoxed bY the reply of Mr Stern (October 20) 1 beg him not to despair. Our window cleaner is...

Prom Mrs M. Simm-s Sir: Lady Bountiful was cross when the Poor started disappearing and no longer required her soup-kitchen. Dr Linklater (known in happier army days as Colonel...

Facts for Skinflint S ir: 1 am writing to you to correct a number of facts contained in an item referring to me under the heading Conference figures' (Skinflint, October 13). In...

sir: Your article of September 29 on No Integration for Ulster' has only n ow been drawn to my attention. The consequences deserve to be put to your readers. The proposition...

Sir: "Teenagers," writes Isabel Quigley (October 20), "are quite a recent invention," but she is uncertain when precisely this vulgar word was popularised. We know that the...

The privilege of the worker Patrick Cosgrave It seems almost inevitable nowadays — and may continue to be inevitable, given the present indifferent calibre of most British...

I stayed up to watch President Nixon's per formance on television and found it pretty sickening. Physically he was in better shape than I'd expected, and when he talked of...

The man of the temporary expedient Adam Watson The interesting thing about Henry Kissinger among the major practitioners of foreign policy on the present world scene lies in...

After the funerals Peter Ackroyd The first news of the first cease-fire came to Cairo without any token of either victory or defeat. There were no demonstrations, no...

Canny might do it litawle Knox Londonderry, October 25 Wee Brian, as his not so friendly friends call him, still leads Northern Ireland's Unionist Party — for the moment. His...

Poor vivisected doggy John Linklater Vivisection is the act of cutting open a living animal. According to a recent nationwide anti-vivisection poll, only 4 per cent of the...

Evolution and catastrophe Martin Sullivan The Christian view of history has undergone drastic change. Until modern times the notion prevailed that the whole of life could be...

Autumn leaf colour Denis Wood Evergreens have their uses, and some of them also — pines, ilexes and cedars — their majesty and charm, but they all lack the overwhelming...

Matronly ladies sporting tweeds and a respectable air were all for ' clambering on tables and giving the thing a good bash, others, less volatile in temperament, sought vainly...

Benny Green The moment I heard the news that the Palace Pier at Brighton had caved in, I contacted Stanton, according to the plans laid down twenty-four years ago. Stanton is...

OF BOOKS Richard Luckett on the defenders of Aldous Huxley A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dares hope to survive....

0.00) A_P.,,a-t from the Napoleonic Wmoire de St. 11 4 - ene, the most interesting autobiographic statements by politicians or their ghosts are Of them when young. Sir Winston's...

Robert Nye Sir Walter Ralegh Robert Lacey (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £4.00) Sir Walter Ralegh: The Renaissance Mart and His Roles Stephen J. Greenblatt (Yale University Press...

Simon Hornblower The Ancient Economy M. I. Finley (Chatto and Windus £3.50) Democracy Ancient and Modern M. I. Finley (Chatto and Windus £2.00) Professor Sir Ronald Syme,...

Pat Rogers Samuel Richardson: Dramatic Novelist Mark Kinkead-Weekes (Methuen £5.20) 1)eep amidst the foundations of the house of fiction lies the private dug-out of Samuel...

Bookend It is reassuring to see that Fredric Warburg (publisher, not banker) has lost none of his abrasive immodesty in his second volume of memoirs, All Authors Are Equal, out...

Kenneth Hurren on Shakespeare's mixed Roman foursome I had hard words to say about some aspects of the Royal Shakespeare Company's productions of Coriolanus, Julius Caesar,...

Jung at heart Christopher Hudson" It was a clever stratagem of Alexandro Jodorowsky to give a premiere of his film El Topo C X 'Y before an audience of young, art: tistic...

The Royal Shakespeare Company's much publicised idea of playing the Shakespearian quartet of Roman plays in historical sequence at consecutive performances seems so far to have...

Sound stuff Rodney Milnes 'To see Turandot in an opera house can be a frustrating experience. In my experience, no producer has come to grips with the work; although...

Factory-farm mini-star Clive Gammon Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star was the somewhat tongue-in-cheek title Man Alive chose for its look, last week on BBC2, at the jungle world...

The City's image Nicholas Davenport The appointment of a chief executive by the Stock Exchange Is a move in the right direction. He Is not only to be responsible for the...

The Government has taken too long to decide about petrol and fuel oil rationing. One thought occurs to my non-technical mind. With winter approaching, it is much more important...

Looking for the lucky strike Nephew Wilde I was rather impressed by the Prime Minister's phone-in programme on television last Wednesday evening, and that night had a...