21 FEBRUARY 1987, page 5

Greene-horn

AN INTELLECTUAL visitor from another planet, arriving on earth for the first time and intending to settle, might base his choice of country on the views of leading writers.......

Queening It

MRS Edwina Currie says that 'the Labour Party is being led by a woman and she is leading them by the nose'. If this is true, it is Labour's best hope. A woman has been leading......

The Spectator

SPLITTING THE CHURCH T here have been many attacks on Dr Robert Runcie, the present Archbishop of Canterbury. This paper has often criticised him. But in one important respect,......

Peer Group

BY HER creation of new peers last week, Mrs Thatcher deferred to the rather dis- tasteful notion of 'working peers'. If these creations, separate from peerages in the......