17 APRIL 1971, page 7

August Displeasure

Sir Solly Zuckerman's elevation was to be expected. I have been bemused for , everal years that a man of his age, whatever his earlier scientific expertise, should have re-......

Count Me In

The instincts of the strip-teasing liberal bird who took off her sweaters one by one until she was down to a body stocking in order to protest against the Census may have been......

Scandalous Immunity

One does not need to be a republican. however, to suggest that a more appropriate attitude for a Select Committee to adopt—and indeed for any Gracious Message to convey—would be......

Radical Innovation

It is Mr Heath's choice of Robert Blake, the Provost of the Queen's College, Oxford. that I find quite the most interesting. Although actors and physicians and surgeons do......

A Royal Trust?

What surely is required is a decision as to which of the royal possessions are more pro- perly regarded as public property : and the maintenance of these, subject to public ac-......

A Motley Lot

As usual, the new Life Peers are a motley lot; but interesting for their illumination of 1 'mist do down to al(' sea again the manner of man the Prime Minister is. Two of the......

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THE SPECTATOR'S • NOTEBOOK _ The Queen's money is, naturally enough, a matter of great interest; and 1, for one, am delighted at Mr Heath's decision that the Queen should send a......