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There is no reason now to refrain from declaring, on evidence which is brave and strong, that the Government and the Army of Pakistan, which is to say the establishment of West...

71 est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres.'—Voltaire, Candide Ch. XX111 There are almost invariably excellent reasons to be discovered and put...

111111111111111111 HUGH MACPHERSON - m , , 11111 1 III IwtU v" ,a100••• swk . as 1 . 1.ow 'What we must do,' said t ie po backbencher just before Monday s statement, 9s to...

Saviour SALLY VINCENT Devils abound in Manhattan. Every New Yorker knows the place is falling apart at the seams, breaking up, stinking hot, foully humid, smothered in soot...

Sir John Clements, I hear, is graciously allowing everybody at the Chichester Festi- val Theatre to call him 'Sir Fred' (a family nickname) to avoid confusion with Sir John...

The newspapers gave nice coverage last week to the 'secret' wedding of Hayley Mills and film man Roy Boulting at Cap d'Ail: plenty of pictures of Hayley looking radiant (in...

The writing of doom is on the wall for BBC-TV's most popular programme, Softly Softly (a steady 11+ million viewers). The series beginning in September will almost certainly be...

It is rare, conceivably unique, for a Brit- ish conductor to reach the finals of an in- ternational competition as prestigious as the Guido Cantelli .Conductors' Prize, which is...

The present buoyancy of ay shares is clearly encouraged by the belief of investors that the companies will succeed in their pressure campaign to get a second com- mercial...

It has always seemed to me regrettable that we have had no opportunity of seeing as a single entity Christopher Fry's sea- sonal quartet of plays—The Lady's not for 'Burning...

BY 'A CONSERVATIVE' A good deal of criticism has been levelled at the article, 'Mr Heath and the Conserva- tive party', written for these pages by 'a Senior Conservative' who...

Wednesday 9 June: Cholera in Bengal seemed to be contained and Britain is ready to send more aid for the refugees. MPS were unhappy after Mr Rippon's brusque explanation of the...

Tribal elders HUGH REAY With the House of Lords occupied for another week over the politically sterile In- dustrial Relations Bill, and prompted by the curiosity that two...

Research cash BERNARD DIXON Supposing the Arts Council were to announce that, in future, it must curb the range of its financial patronage and con- centrate its spending on a...

Mrs Pamela Haines receives the £500 cheque in the Editor's room in Gower Street, from Mr George Gale, Editor• of the srEcrAToR, with Mr Kingsky Antis and Sir Richard Steele...

It's been a tough week in Bangla Desh. Not the first (nor the last.by any means) but tough enough, now the refugees are in millions and the cholera deaths up to God-knows- what,...

Springboks and Wallabies RICHARD WEST Johannesburg The threat to the forthcoming Springbok tours of Australia has caused consternation and soul-searching among white South...

Speaking for the nation LEONARD BEATON We received this article through the post from Mr Beaton immediately after he died from. a heart attack in Venice. He had hoped to...

Joseph Lee and Norman Gash on a history of modern Ireland . Reviews by John Wood, Simon Raven and John Stewart Collis Auberon Waugh on new novels John Casey on Samuel...

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This tastelessly named but rather good book is a potted history of physical filth as a factor in European and more particularly in British affairs. Filth or dirt, as Terence...

As with the Aldermaston march, the foreign aid crusade has lost its former glory and prestige. Each year the followers are fewer, and today's slogans lack yesterday's assur-...

Joseph Lee on a historiographical curiosity Two of the fundamental assumptions underlying the treatment of the Irish ques- tion in English historiography from Carlyle to W. A....

There was a time when writing on Ireland seemed little more than recriminations between Irish and English. In that field the Irish, never a reticent race, usually had the best...

MF Anthony Burgess (Cape £1.60) Any week which produces a new novel by Anthony Burgess must be ringed in gold on the reviewers' calendar. His latest is about word games and...

When the present beach generation Have lost their tans, and are pushing pens In the back room of the supermarket, Putting up with that perpetual winter Called gainful employment...

Tuscan Harvest Vernon Bartlett (Chatto and Windus £1.50) Instead of Contents to Odious Child, Mrs Zinkin gives us Act 1, followed by Scenes t, ill, iv, and v—(no Act it or in)....

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Charles Seaton reports: Competitors were asked to suggest a real `final solution' to the British question, as put forward by any European leader, present or past, in a...

No. 655: 'My gorge leaps up . . Set by Caduta Mass!: 'Tired with all these, for restful death I cry . . . ' wrote Shakespeare (Sonnet Lxvi) and then listed in immortal verse...

No. 1486 DAEDALUS A prize of £3 will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 28 June. Address solutions: Crossword 1486, The Spectator, 99 Gower Street, London WCIE...

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• ARTS • LETTERS • MONEY•LEISURE TELEVISION The morning after PETER FIDDICK I do not envy Clive Barnes. In truth, if the recent television profile of him is anything to go...

Not our Emily CHRISTOPHER HUDSON Wuthering Heights is certainly an improve- ment on Jane Eyre. For one thing, the actors are credible. But there is no atmosphere, no...

Minority view KENNETH HURREN There was much more in similarly regret- ful and indignant vein (copies of the issue of the SPECTATOR in which it appeared are available from the...