21 SEPTEMBER 1974, page 3

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pivoious to govern At the Brighton conference the Liberals presented a mixture that has become familiar in the last few years — a quaint mixture of the antique and the trendy.......

Rspca Inquiry?

Numerous and widespread doubts .about the capacity of the RSPCA to fulfil its titular function to prevent cruelty to animals will be renewed and strengthened by disclosures that......

Police Education

It is clear from the Machiavellian tactics of counsel for the various left wing groups involved in the Scarman enquiry into the violent Red Lion Square demonstration, as a......

Mafia Extortion

Recently Hugh Leggatt wrote in our Notebook that, on the whole, it was his belief that great paintings were never stolen for private delectation, though the gaining of a ransom......

Creeping Censors

The decision of the Independent Broadcasting Authority to prevent the screening of Sir Hugh Cudlipp's new television documentary is an extremely serious one, and establishes a......

C Na A-an Apology

The Spectator's issue dated August 10, 1974, contained an editorial headed 'Academic Prejudice' about the Council for National Academic Awards' refusal to recognise degrees from......