Friends of Biafra Sir: Wve Biafrans have be n hli\ing the worst experience of man's inIhumanity to nian in African history for the past :xo years. We have endured it stoically...

From bad to verse Sir: Should we thank Mr Wightman (Letters, 27 September) for his help?t Mr SeymourSnmith (20 September) was writing a review andj those who disagree with him...

Cause for unease Sir: Mr Stuart Hood's article (25 October) reflects some of the failings of the BBC, touched upon by Mr Wedgwood Benn, which seem to contribute to a breakdown...

I Back to the power-house Sir: In his article (25 October) entitled 'Back to the power-house' Mr Auberon Waugh makes One Point about the Nigerian war which needs correction. He...

I Black scorpion AFTERTHOUGHT JOHN WELLS Despite such front-page-filling e ents as the marriage of Mrs Kennedy to Mr Onaiiis, the English Revolution of 27 October axid tht...

Sir: In his first article (18 October) on the rela- tions of universities with their students, Mr MacGregor warned that we might find his conclusions surprising (1 November). I...

MacGregor on students LETTERS Fromn Sir Eric Ashlby, E. J. Mishian, W. K. C. Gutlhrie, Dennis Ward, Dr Enid Siarkie, Sir Osrvald Mosley, Nicolas Walter, J. D. MarsJiall, F. R....

Sir: I should like to raise one or two points in connection with Ian MacGregor's article 'Save our universities! (1 November). He states: it is no part of the university's...

Sir: My congratulations to ILn NMicGregor (18 and 25 October, 1 November). Good sense at last! The rationale of a students strike bears comparison with that of the action of a...

Enter the new fascists | Sir: In your issue of 25 Qctober an other;:>e admirable frarft-page article sought to c4uLAte me with people fighting the police in London streets for...

Who gets the chair? Sir: Your correspondent (Letters, I Nou-,em ber), discussing the method. of the election of the Professor of Poet\ writes: 'Such methods have, of course,...

Sir: To describe the rpkellious students :h, "h i new fascists (25 Octrher) is superficiallU: . lI vincing as long as you stick to the idea> II share with the old...

Alligators All Around and One Was Johnny Call of the wild JILL FREUD Maurice Sendak (Collins 8s 6d each) Mr Rabbit and the Lovely Presert Maurice Sendak (Bodley Head 18s)...

Look Back in Anger THEATRE Memory lane HILARY SPURLING I (Royal Court) I Forty Years On (Apollo) Ring Round the Moon (Haymarket) Not much for the under forties in the...

The greatest since the gothic ARTS MARIO AMAYA London doesn't treat architects kindly: Adam's Adelphi terraces brought the Scotsman to the edge of bankruptcy and then were...

S o N i x o n' s t he (l s s e O n ie I ,:' : ; . 1* Saving' lost the r4, t to Wi* HOuse 4I9.6 ;p.'.e,'r Bi'~t 4! t:Ab V'':t. e. Ad -,.MrNion: Izas at:.int won it. wit leess 44...

Loud loving TELEVISION STUART HOOD Those who are in favour-as I am-of giving wider access to the television cameras must approve of Londoft Weekend's Roundhzouswe programme....

Strip guide THlE PRESS BILL GRUNDY -Ol.)Ugh reatder' 4 the DaJilv Mail will know that another epi'lodc in the saga of (Carol Day has jult begun. IThc will be feeling that...

Sir: In 'Table talk' (18 October) Sir DM Brogan says he has not yet received a satin factory explanation of why the Revd. Paisle wears a Roman collar-and by a Roman collar I...

'Ma hert is gey sair for puir 'Lita Docheilv. I I Her ruby bluid-red gin the snaw o' her brcit. But the chaps o' the hizzies o Bishop o' C laher See, Mak us spring to her aid;...

Sir: Re 'Home Rule for Yorkshire? (18 Octo- ber), I dont suppose London is entirely populated by homosexual Jewish negroes any more than all Yorkshiremen are square and...

Sir: The tone of your leader (25 October) on Sunday's demonstration can only be regretted. It was once a common failing of the left to usC the term fascist indiscriminatel, one...

.Table talk Siu 'or the information of Professor Brogan (1 8 October), the results of the most recent imperial parliamentary election held in Northern Ireland, at which every...

Cheap .,-rds Sir: Bill Grusty's suggestion (1 Novemiber) that we mined our announcement about the SCO-tfsh Daily Mail in order to strengthen the 'hand of the Dailjy Mirror...

Sir: As I have long been reproaching Ameri. can scholars with their ignorance of that important political institution, the English sy-stem of courtesy titles, I must express my...

Sir: I am appalled at Mr Grundy's article pub || lished in last week's issue of the SPECT ATO containing as it did a complete distortion of the facts and imputations of a...

Home rule for Yorkshire? Sir: It is as well that Dr John Rowan Wilson went south (18 October). He is no Yorkshireman. He knows the mills and the inevitable cloth caps and...

The Victorian Scene: 1837-1901 Queen's English GEORGE HUTCHINSON Nicolas Bent- ley (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 105s, 84s until 31 December) If, like me, you have a taste for...

The Agony of Czechoslovakia '38/'68 Shorter notices Kurt I Weisskopf (Elek 30s). August 21st. The ae of Czechoslovakia Colin Chapman (Cassell s). Precursors of what promises...

Landscape Harold Pinter (Pendragon Press, 16 9 Cadogan Lane, SWI, limited edition 35s). Mr Pinter's new play is a set of modest variations for two old persons on some tbemes...

Ages seven to ten Scratch and Co: The Great Cat Expedilion Molly Lefebure (Gollancz l8s). Harried by desperadoes, plagued by the press and hampered by feckless porter rabbits,...

Vietnam: the prospect now Last week, perhaps aware that the American election was in the offing, President Johnson at last screwed up his courage and announced the cessation of...

The President's A nali'st CINEMA Good questions PENELOPE HOUSTON (Plaza, 'A') Wild in the Streets (Cameo Victoria, 'X') The Swirt-i er (Columbia, 'A') Satire didn't die of...

The Resistance versus VicY 1: The Purge of Collaborators in Liberated France On the surface DAVID THO3SON Peter Novick (Chatto and Windus 42s) The Baile of Silence Vercors...

Meet my friends CLEMENT CRISP There is a good deal more to Ashton', new Enigma Variations than meets the eye-thank heaven, since what meets the eye first is a p. ins. takingly...

A hundred years ago From the 'Spectator', 7 Nov-ember 1868-Mr. Bright is losing his caution. He intends, we imagine, to take office; but on Thursday he made some remarks which...

The Duccio deal ART ANTHONY LIVESEY The recent purchase of a Duccio painting by the National Gallery has brought to light a scandal in the art world, variously described as...

Human error I MEDICINE I JOHN ROWAN WILSON I A friend of mine, about six months after qu! ification, was doing his first operation, a ligature of varicose veins. This was...

The gerontizophobes PERSONAL COLUMN D. C. WATT D. C. Watt has been a mnember of thie staff of the London School of Economics for the past fifteen years. This promises to be...

The Golliwogg at the Seaside and The Golli- Il wogg's Auto-Go-Cart Jollywoggs JOHN WELLS I Florence K. Upton sith l verses by Bertha Upton (Longmans 12s 6d e;ichi These are...

English Fairy Tales That rides again MAB LONSDALE collected by Joseph Jacobs (Constable/Dover 17s) This new and attractively presented republication of Joseph Jacobs's...

What's in a squeeze? MONEY NICHOLAS DAVENPORT Wlhen is a squeeze not a squeeze? When Mrs Barbara Castle says so. There is no economic freeze on the way, she told the voters...

Market report I CUSTOS I Equity markets took the new HP restrictions in their stride. Just before the announcement on Friday morning the market drifted lower but a soon as the...

Down the mine PORTFOLIO JOHN BULL Water is pouring into the world's biggest gold mine, West Driefontein. On fears that the whole mine will be put out of action, the share...

The Adventure of Hadrian Hedgehog Hadrian's hall AUBERON WAUGH I Candidaj I Lycett Green and Christopher Thynne (Collins 1Os 6d) Hedgehogs are such delightful creatures,...

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