6 SEPTEMBER 1975, page 7

A Spectator's Notebook

Being had is never a very happy experience, and I have recently been pretty comprehensively had. The story goes like this. In July The Spectator carried a leading article on the......

Christian Gloom

There was one depressing aspect of a recent visit to Israel, and it lay in comparing the Christian Holy Places with those of the Moslems and Jews. The old city of Jerusalem is......

Dev Departs

Eamonn de Valera, whose long innings has 'just ended at the age of ninety-two, was perhaps the only figure of the Irish Revolution – except, possibly, Pearse – to attain the......

Causes And Cures

I am continually at war with the medical profession, especially on the question of smoking and lung cancer, and the engagements in that war usually occur when I have the......