8 SEPTEMBER 1984

Page 3

Untitled

The Spectator

Page 4

Politics

The Spectator

Politics Old world charm Brighiton At the end of the TUC's 'breaking the. law' debate, Mr Mick McGahev spoke. 'Unlike the last speaker,' he said, l want to talk about trade...

Page 5

Heath-Walker

The Spectator

Heath-Walker Readcrs of a competitive cast of mind, or anxious to lay hands on £1.)000, will find this Note of no interest. An organisation called Roots, which stands for...

Poor genitive

The Spectator

Poor genitive New genitival constructions have the power to shock: there is that much to be said for them. When at the TUC conference Ray Buckton uttered the phrase, of which...

[Robert Maxwell's latest stunt suggested...]

The Spectator

Notes obert Maxwell's latest stunt suggested .a real million-pound question: What the miners and the Coal Board talk about when they finally do start talking'? The strike has...

Saving faces

The Spectator

Saving faces B ut all is not lost - which is to sav that to ht Still could be. Mr Scargill will claim t have Won an overwhelmingg victorN there ir the strike ends: in that...

Bring back Latin

The Spectator

Bring back Latin The disappointing moderation of the Vatican's document on liberation theology, issued earlier this week, is indicated by the almost inaudible response it has...

Page 6

Another voice

The Spectator

Another voice Toilets in the temple Auberon Waugh Nobodv has vet drawn a parallel hetween the behaviour of the trade union movement, as its usefulness and general appeal...

Page 7

Diary

The Spectator

Diary N ot being an academic, or a celebrated novelist, or even a politician, I have Seldom got invited to any of those international conferences organised by American...

Page 8

Mitterrand recoils

The Spectator

Mitterrand recoils Sam White PariS Having for a time outsmarted the opposition President Mitterrand has now succeeded in outsmarting himself. He has moved a long way...

Page 9

Siebenburgen besieged

The Spectator

Siebenburgen besieged Richard Bassett Transylvania ItIwould ~ ' ransylvanta WOukl be hard to find a more 1 Picturesque part of Eastern Europe than II nylvalia, even more...

Page 10

Another Cyprus

The Spectator

Another Cyprus A. S. Faiz It is the recourse to bigotry. so cunningly used by Christopher Hitchens ( Aphrodite's airport'. 25 August) to advance a case - rather than the case...

Page 12

Untitled

The Spectator

Page 14

Fleet Street's blind eye

The Spectator

Fleet Street's blind eye Dhiren Bhagat Southall If you rely on newspapers bor news you are unlikely to have heard this story. Over a month ago, the editor of a SFikh paper in...

Page 16

Untitled

The Spectator

Page 17

Foreign powers

The Spectator

Cricket Foreign powers Alan Gibson was not so depressed by the West Indies defeat as most critics seem to have been. fter all, the second, third and fifth Tests Were good...

Page 18

Gorgeous Weston

The Spectator

Gorgeous Weston Gerda Cohen A hrcathle',s IiP d atcrnoon at Westonsupier-\lare. ebhing with the tired paticnt pr unnicr- Onto a wet, crimped wtildcrncvs ot mud A\wav on the...

Page 19

Untitled

The Spectator

Page 20

Cit. vac.

The Spectator

Cit. vac. Wclcome September. as the noral V cast of thousands returns to a teo porarily dcpopulatcd City 'Theres' nO° porarl I~~o a mechant body here,' salid a scion1 ot a ugr...

Pound's psittacosis

The Spectator

Pound's psittacosis It is encouraging to learn, as a new Ifoothall scason starts, that parrots as a class are not sick. They survive. squawking and smelling, to commit...

Waggery

The Spectator

Waggery A s a matter of fact. we have. Bache. the ANew York securities house. has set up a new stockbroking firm with some brokers from James Capel. Schroders has followed...

Untitled

The Spectator

Dock Exchange

The Spectator

City and Dock Exchange W hat we need is a National Stocks Labour Scheme. This would provide stability of employment for the deserving rich. The stockbroking and stock jobbing...

Page 21

The sandwich-board man

The Spectator

The sandwich-board man Jock Bruce-Gardyne W ith the trade unions' annual display of fraternal frightfulness beside the Sea behind us, it back to work in carnest. Mr Peter...

Page 22

Anecdotes

The Spectator

Anecdotes {| Sir: I am editing the Oxford Book Of Military Anecdotes, one of those books which will eventually annoy all its readers by omitting each of their favourite stories...

Fitzgerald's past

The Spectator

Fitzgerald's past Sir: How come that your experienced contributor, Richard West, writing from Dublin, could get so many things wrong'? He has really run off the rails in his'...

No squire

The Spectator

Letters No squire Sir: We were interested to read Peregrine Worsthorne's thoughts (Diary, 25 August) on ways in which Wivenhoe residents might contain some of the nuisances...

Peking and China

The Spectator

Peking and China Sir: Without wanting to be pedantic, I should like to say that Geoffrey Wheat, croft seems to me essentially right about the Peking 'Beijing' issue despite...

Local bores

The Spectator

Local bores Sir: Peter Levi could not be more mistaken in his belief that 'local news is the only interesting and deeply penetrating kind' (Television, 25 August). Regional...

De mortuis

The Spectator

De mortuis Sir: It is true that, before publishing the faults of famous people, writers often wait for them to die (Letters. 21 July). But this is surely not so much for fear...

South Yorkshife

The Spectator

South Yofkshife Sir: As Richard West admires the wishes of Tykes to preserve their sense of local identity (Arthur's seat', 25 August), I was dismayed that he kept referring to...

Page 23

Centrepiece

The Spectator

Centrepiece Betj eman' s paradise Colin Welch A bove the tiny sloping churchyard of St A Enodoc the Cornish wcather changelessly changes or often, in the manner of the old...

Page 24

A Future That Will Work David Owen

The Spectator

Books The Flying Doctor Fcrdinand Mount A F uture Ihat M ill W\ork I ).1I id ( )v. Ic] ( )0\N.s c hi'li ithal inc li casv ridc L Ittl\1. \W rice othcr politicians makc...

Page 25

The 2024 Report: a Concise History of the Future, 1974-2024 Norman Macrae

The Spectator

Nice new world Patrick Skene Catling The 2024 Report: a Concise History of the Future, 1974-2024 Norman Macrae (Sidgwick & Jackson f9.95) Futurologists have a vested interest...

Page 26

Lean, Wind, Lean: a Few Times Remembered David Walker

The Spectator

Colditz revisited Alistair Horne Lean, Wind. Lean: a Few Ilimes Rememhered Dald.s~ Woillier (Collins '2.95)) Ih a-c to deciare an interest: I have known the author for many...

Page 27

The Only Problem Muriel Spark

The Spectator

Job updated Francis King The Only Prob)lem Muriel Spark (B3odlcy Head £7.95) he 'only problem' of Muriel Spark's new novel is the problem of hum.an Suffering If (Ile believes...

Page 28

About Rothko Dore Ashton

The Spectator

Dark on dark Peregrine Horden About Rothko D)orc Ashton (OUI' £15) The painter Mark Rothko cotnnittcd T suicidc in 1 970. HIts posthumouselves nlaV OWC Iess to the paintings...

The Private World of Georgette Heyer Jane Aiken Hodge

The Spectator

Rogue males Kathy O'Shaughnessy The Private World of Georgette Hever Jane Aiken Hodge (B3od1e'v Head i1(.95) G corgette Heyer's novels are usually found in the obscure,...

Page 30

Untitled

The Spectator

Page 31

A return to order

The Spectator

Arts A return to order Gavin Stamp A letter recently appeared in the Times Afrom Professor Colin St John Wilson denying a claim made by Mr Quinlan Terry, the architect, that...

Page 32

Hamlet (Stratford) Ohio Impromptu, Catastrophe, What Where (Donmar Warehouse)

The Spectator

Theatre Domestic Christopher Edwards Hamlet (Stratford) Ohio Impromptu, Catastrophe, What Where (Donmar Warehouse) Of all the productions of Hamlet I have seen this is the...

Turandot The Flying Dutchman

The Spectator

Opera Unfinished? Rodney Milnes Turandot (Covent Garden) The Flying Dutchman (Coliseum) n terms of staging, Puccini's last opera has been one of the most grotesquely...

Page 33

Round-up

The Spectator

Edinburgh Festival Round-up Alasdair Steven The Edinburgh Festival has been something of an unexpected success. The fact that it almost degenerated into a political football...

Page 34

Untitled

The Spectator

High life

The Spectator

High life Dynasty Taki hcir story could have miade everY Tl-lollywood hack weep with CenVV It is set against all the glamour the lattcr part ( the 20th century can muster....

Page 35

Postscript

The Spectator

Postscript Worthy pioneer! P. J. Kavanagh Recently mentioning some exasperation at the breaking of a scythe (now, happily, restored) I was surprised to receive many kind...

Low life

The Spectator

Low life Wasted Jeffrey Bernard t here was a strange sort of a progression last Monday which was fairly typical of the wasted summer of 1984. My wasted Sulnmer anyway. In the...

Page 38

WINE

The Spectator

N,-z!V-P% - j Hyper growth 4 Supermarkets project a particular kind of mystique - the mystique of inflation. They set out to stun with superlatives, the biggest, the cheapest,...