19 JANUARY 1974, page 3

Disarrayed For Battle

It sometimes happens that generals who get their tactics all wrong nonetheless possess the strategic instinct which enables them to win battles. So it may prove with Mr Heath......

Tangle After Re-shuffle • •

Ministers have been at pains to insist that Lord Carrington's new Ministry for Energy is not just t he old Ministry of Fuel and Power writ large, lit it is for all that. As......

Ian Gilmour

Ian Gilmour, who was, as is well-known to readers, the owner of The Spectator which he had bought from Sir Evelyn Wrench from 1954 until 1967, has the sincere good wishes of the......