17 AUGUST 1985, page 5

Go By Car

IN SORROW, but also in anger, we advise our readers no longer to attempt to travel on trains `operated' by British Rail: in sorrow, because our instinct would be to Urge people......

The Spectator

THE TOURIST TRAP I t is — at least according to the calendar --- summer, when the middle classes flee to Tuscany or the Dordogne and leave Britain to the tourists. London is now......

Shiva Naipaul

IT IS with great sadness that we record the sudden death on Tuesday of Shiva Naipaul. Mr Naipaul, who was 40, was one of the finest writers of the present time and one of the......

This Week, The Price Of The Spectator Increases To 90

pence. This is the first increase for more than two years and is made necessary by the pressure of inflation which, despite Mrs Thatcher, does not seem to weaken. We hope that......