Thursday, July 29: The Opposition seethed, boiled and finally erupted in the Commons as Trade and Industry Secretary, Mr John Davies, announced drastic closures in Upper Clyde...

We still await a clear statement of the Government's economic and industrial policy, although its fiscal and financial policy is now taking recognizable shape under the...

I had not thought to see the day when this country could take a lesson in responsible constitutional practice from Japan. Following an emergency meeting of the Japanese Cabinet,...

There is no such thing as honest government.' For that matter there is no such thing as an honest person in anything other than a highly qualified sense of the word. Anyone...

For reasons, which are perhaps in the final analysis inscrutable, the UCS affair has done much to advance Mr Benn's standing inside the Labour party. He now has a solid base of...

Parole on trial NORMAN FOWLER, MP For the last year or so the argument about prisons has concentrated upon finding alternatives to shutting men away. It has not always been...

Is prevention better than cure? JOHN ROWAN WILSON I notice that somebody on the television a few weeks ago revived that hoary old criticism of the National Health Service that...

Market & Migrant HUGH REAY Last week the long summer season at the House of Lords reached its climax, when 108 Noble Lords spent 29 hours in a three day debate, giving their...

Ink dried up TONY PALMER I suppose I should be writing an obituary for In!. Issue Number 15, which is published this week, is the last — at least for the time being. With half...

To filo, Elect Good brother Londiniensis : I am heartily. o prry to have kept you so long without netvs of our academick commonwealth in Oxon, and I freely acknowledge that my...

The Second World War is said to have produced one hero, one martyr, and one victor — respectively, this country, Poland, and the United States. The Soviet Union was in fact all...

The Complection of Russian Literature: A Cento Andrew Field (Allen Lane The Penguin Press £3.50) Pushkin: A Comparative Commentary John 13ayley (CUP £4.60) Pushkin on Literature...

The Last of the Valois Hugh Ross Williamson (Michael Joseph £2.00) Caroline Matilda Queen of Denmark Hester Chapman (Cape £2..25) Here are two books about royalty in the days...

Politically Impossible . . .? W H Hutt (IEA Hobart Paperback 75p) Politicians are never short of advice. It comes from all quarters and is rarely dispassionate or disinterested....

Krumnagel Peter Ustinov (Heinemann £2.10) Farce creates a degree of goodwill which enables the reader to overlook occasional jokes which are unfunny, episodes which fail to...

Few authors realise to what extent the t fate of their books rests with a group of people they never see or normally hear about: the travellers, or publishers' reps. These are...

At the Coprocabana KENNETH HURREN With a fastidiousness as baffling as it was uncharacteristic, the promoters of a kindergarten prank called Pork, which was imported to the...

Speed-freaks CHRISTOPHER HUDSON In a dusty Californian township close to the Nevada border, two mountainous bulldozers edge down the highway and join forces to block the road....

Burtons of hip DUNCAN FALLOWELL The Lennons are with us again. You can tell because the pollen count drops and average Englishmen everywhere purse their thin lips waiting for...

ART Hayward Gallery: the Bridget Riley retrospective will knock your eye out (or at least send you away with double vision); it contains work dating back twenty years,...

London's Festival Ballet returns to town later this month (August 24) for a four-week season at the Royal Festival Hall, when we may confidently look to the William Hickey...

limited success to keep the King " out of politics," but as part of the constitution he cannot be kept out of constitutional questions. It is not merely a matter of the size of...

Sir: Dr Vernon Coleman's article I've Got Here To Late' deserves comment. I can assure him that far from being "too late" he may yet be just in time. There is no doubt that a...

Sir: In view of the Prime Minister's apparent determination to take Britain into the Common Market, the Government will find that measures designed to boost the economy are not...

Sir: Following a criticism of Mr Mallory's contribution to the debate on Northern Ireland (July 17), on the basis of a lack of objectivity, Mr Utley (July 24) goes on to evoke...

Sir: The recent article on the British Steel Corporation by 'an Economist in the British Steel Industry' is as severe an indictment of the BSC as could have been written....

Sir: Your last issue of ihe Spectator (July 31) contained a story concerning the Oz trial at the Old Bailey by Tony Palmer. He wrote: "The regular crime reporters coughed and...

Sir: Not perhaps surprisingly, Tony Palmer has jumped on the bandwagon propelled by the little ' ingroup' who are now busying themselves trying to persuade the vast numbers of...

Sir: You people had better sharpen yourselves up in regard to your film reviews: twice I have wasted money through watching films inadequately reviewed in The Spectator. Take...

Sir: Mr Vaisey's first piece on South Africa was so obviously beneath comment that I never considered it. Now, incredibly, this preposterous person has been allowed to...

Sir: Lest it seem I am badgering Dr Bernard Dixon (Letters to the Editor, July 17), I say from the outset that in his recent articles on science and medicine in America he made...

NICHOLAS DAVENPORT MR HEATH'S 'quiet revolution' has come up against the unquiet grave of the Clyde shipyards. It could be a serious clash but for the intervention of Tony...

Despite not arriving at Goodwood until after the third race on the fifth and final day, hot, exhausted and traffic-jammed, the balming influence of England's most captivating...

Shareholders who have made money with Nigel Broackes in Trafalgar House will be thinking of taking their profits now that they have been landed with Cunard and all its trouble...

Living on the coast as I do, it is only natural that I should spend a good part of August in spasmodic, seething rages brought on by the clowns that visit our part of the...

Modern man's infatuation about sunshine is perfectly understandable, g iven that modern man has to live the bulk of his life at two removes from the natural world — firstly...

This is the season when many otherwise sensible people have a rush of squirrel to the head. They feel urged to cram what cookery writers often term 'nature's bounty' into their...