16 NOVEMBER 1962, page 9

Holding The Pass

The people of Highgate, having made their Point unanimously and forcefully about the M inistry of Transport's scheme to turn Highgate Hill into a one-way endurance test for......

He Kept His Head

Yevgeny Yevtushenko was recently described with some surprise as `a rebel within the existing order.' But why the surprise? Anybody with any contact with younger Russians abroad......

Goddess Armed

One of the major achievements of nineteenth- century liberalism was the creation of what are called `academic values'—that is, those standards of independence, objectivity and......

The Politic Poet

Poets come, roughly speaking, in either of two forms: the disorderly and the orderly. One should not be misled by the general publicity advantage of the former. For every Dylan......

Fingers Crossed In Helsinki

By RICHARD BAILEY T arc no direct flights from Helsinki to Brussels, and the majority of Finns appear to see no reason for changing this situation at present. This does not mean......

The Skull Beneath The Skin

Meanwhile, on the western slopes of the Northern Heights, Hampstead, that home of the 131 P, is celebrating the fact that so many writers breathe its healthy air. Thirty-nine......

Spectator's Notebook

SUPPOSE that the British Government's decision to explode a nuclear device under- ground in the Nevada desert might be called bad Public relations. It will certainly bring the......