30 JANUARY 1971, page 27

Diversionary Tactics

Economically the effect of Britain joining will be damaging. From 1950 there has been commendable growth in the Market but there is no clear evidence that its formation has in......

End Of Utopia

Unthinking enthusiasm for the common market seems to be confined to the frus- trated. Men like Sir Tufton Beamish, Mr Duncan Sandys aided by Lord Harlech, and Lord Gladwyn work......

Peter Quince

This present lull in the procession of the seasons used to be called 'the dead time'. We know, of course, that this pressing sense that life has departed from the countryside is......

Benny Green

The sheer vehemence with which people of a certain sensibility, and often of a certain vin- tage, oppose what the planners are doing to London, leads me to believe that this is......

Oh, Gosh!

'This has led to talk of rescue operations— the interests of Gussie's chief Sir Isaac Wolf- son have been mentioned—and much worse.' —Daily Express, 19 January, on the cash......