22 JUNE 1985, page 5

The Spectator

DO NOT PAY DANEGELD T here must be a great temptation for President Reagan to concede to the Beirut hijackers' demands. He knows that Israel was anyway preparing to release its......

Since Foot

SOME time during the Attlee terror, Professor Michael Oakeshott irreverently described Ernest Bevin as the worst for- eign secretary since Sir Anthony Eden, his immediate......

In Poland's Court

THE recent signs from Poland have been almost all bad. Three outstanding Solidar- ity activists were last week convicted in Gdansk, in a trial which can only be described as......