21 SEPTEMBER 1974, page 7

A Spectator's Notebook

O ne of our writers complained last February as, indeed, did many Conservative candidates and members of Parliament of the inadetluacies of the Tory election machine,......

Election Japes

I am told that there was a more than ordinary fl ,. a l 3 in the higher reaches of the Tory Party a bout that leaked manifesto, and Ted Heath v ‘ h 'as certainly in a storming......

- Inancial Advice Livith An Election Imminent, There Are...

hearts cashing in their endowment In surance policies. Some because they need the money and others because they have not got ‘ '. 1101 -igh income left during these inflationary......

Media Boredom

It is a relief to know that the television networks will be moderating somewhat their coverage of the coming election; the word has obviously got to them at last. British people......

A Minor Work

Eyebrows, are raised in the art world over the National Gallery's acquisition of Taillasson's indigestible painting of 'Virgil reading the Aeneid to Augustus and Octavia'.......

Paid Up

There is at least one man who does not suffer from the liquidity crisis and that is the present leader of the Conservative party, Ted Heath. Lloyds paid the £60,000 for the loss......

Tragedy At Kiel

Exercise 'Bold Guard' was a NATO exercise involving German, Danish, and British forces in which elements of the United Kingdom Mobile Force as well as those of the UK Joint......