31 JANUARY 1981, page 9

Washington Goes To Work

Nicholas von Hoffman Washington President Reagan has his well-publicised 'job hiring freeze' in force but there must have been one exception made. The White House staff have......

Only A Miracle

Peter Paterson One of Chairman Mao's sayings concerned the folly of lifting up a rock only to place it down heavily on your own foot. And that indeed is what Mr Tony Benn, Mr......

One Hundred Years Ago

We know few things more cruel than the way in which lion-tamers like those at Sanger's menagerie . at Birmingham deal with their victims, in order to give the public the trivial......