Immediately after the February election, when the Tory Party had suffered a defeat so apparently unpredictable as to be traumatic, we argued that the resignation of Edward Heath...

Sir: In the aftermath of Mr Heath's February aberration you were savagely attacked by the Daily Mail for urging that he should be removed from the Conservative leadership before...

the failure to alter the party leadership, and now that the latter has inevitably lost a third general election perhaps the charge of disloyalty will be withheld when a...

for his comment on my letter because it gives me an excuse to reiterate my support for Mr Powell, some expressions of which you have been kind enough to publish in your...

F rom Miss Elizabeth Snowden Sir: I have read with much interest Robert Blake's review (October 5) of Nicholas Davenport's Memoirs. You men are all alike. Having been all your...

Sir: I'd be more impressed with ) 70 , r , fulminations on 'The survival of poet* s i 0 1 g c h t o t e b e s tr 5signs i f The f Specta tortaking se s r 000wsfyd the e t two...

Sir: It has always amazed me that a • journal that can provide its readers with the brilliant political commentary of Patr ick Cosgrave can be reduced — When it comes to...

From Professor Alfred March Sir: No doubt your correspondent Al Capp is known to your readers as a gifted and cryptically lewd cartoonist. Mr Capp uses his graphic skills to...

Sir: As a literary critic for over thirty years, writing most regularly for such papers as the Times and the Guardian and under editors such as Ivor Brown (who in a review of...

From Lady Rachel Biliington Sir: I am flattered to provide material for Bookend (October 5) which as a novelist I have always admired. However I must defend my choice of books...

don't write books themselves, surely that is something to be thankful for. Who wants a pregnant midwife? Cohn Hoycraft Chairman and Managing Director, Duckworth and Company...

Sir: I have just seen Miss Parker's letter (September 21), about Molly Lefebure's book on Coleridge. 1 have known the author since before the war and I should think her...

Sir: While the government condemns anything which might be considered divisive, (e.g. public schools) the Post Office openly and deliberately offers a better service to the...

Power and the plotters Patrick Cosgrave It appears that, even after eleven years, there are senior Conservative politicians who do not realise the extent of the dantage done...

another °W of homing emigrants, those English _People who have preferred to live abroad or 7, 110 made their living in other countries, just as In e changes of government in...

A neoKeynesian view Joan Robinson This is the first of a number of articles under the general title, Inflation and Stabilisation, each of which suggests a prognosis and cure...

We went to Australia, and found all the talk On fast-rising prices, and how they could cork The spout of inflation. There then was a scare On whether our plane could take to the...

Labour's Priorities Nuglas Jay, MP l'robably history will judge the second general election of 1974, like those of 1964 or 1951, as rn °l'e decisive than appeared at the time....

The challenge now Norman Lamont, MP Elections recall Ian Macleod's remark about budgets: one's first reaction is not likely to be the correct one. Certainly the shouts of the...

Dry run in Ulster Rawle Knox Londonderry It was a shade brutal of Merlyn Rees ('blunt' was the word he kept using) to inform Ian Paisley and William Craig over the...

"I'm Victor Ludorum am I, I'm the greatest," I now loudly cry, 'Those other two boobs With hoarse-larynx tubes Are left on the shore high and dry "As conquering Hero I come But...

After Spinola __John Vincent-Smith Lisbon Eve rYthing is remarkably calm. Most people are inclined to shrug off the departure of re'res id suitent Spinola as a delayed but...

Thursday, October 10 It was at Mr Creighton's House, where a pretty numerous company had assembled to celebrate the defeat of the Party they favoured, that I encountered Dr...

The days and nights of Peter Willows Diana Dewar Peter Willows, a qualified Bristol barrister aged fifty, who is severely disabled and unable to practise, has lost a two...

The Palmerston view 13111 Grundy You will not be surprised to learn that Lord Palmerston's opinions about the press differ substantial l Y from those of the Labour Party. Hi s...

Survival kits Pamela Vandyke Price A man who had made a fortune in computers — and who thus must have a business-like approach Co life —expressed surprise that wine consumption...

Philip Kleinman How many advertising agencies has the ordinary educated man who is not directly involved in the ad business ever heard of? If he could name even one [guess he'd...

Men not systems Martin Sullivan I nc opponents of Christ pinned many opprobrious labels on Him. They called Him a gluttonous man and a wine-bibber. This kind of charge is...

"Take down, it is beginning" Denis Wood At the Conspirator's Club the other day, Ulrich Brunner said, - Do you remember a book called If Winter Comes, by A. S. M. Hutchinson,...

It could not have come at a more appropriate time. Last week's General Election has speeded LIP the interest in worker participation and worker involvement in management...

Kay Dick Another Part of the Wood Kenneth Clark (John Murray £4.75) I have nearly been seduced — by Kenneth. Which means that I have been reading with concentrated and...

Ted Dexter Golf in The Kingdom Michael Murphy (Latimer £2.95) put forward two possibilities to account for the oil and vinegar mixture of golf and Eastern loYsticism contained...

The lower depths Peter Ackroyd Monsieur Lawrence Dun - ell (Faber and Faber £2.75) All of the best romances begin in France only to end somewhere else and Mr Durrell, not one...

The garden of England Benny Green Whether or not God really wots that a garden is a lovesome thing I have no idea, but it is certainly a very literary thing. Peter Hunt's...

Bookend Two book trade awards — as opposed to literary awards, of which there will be legion — are announced this week. They emanate from the Publishers Publicity Circle and...

Coming on Strong Evan Anthony Any exhibition that boasts a section deliberately called The Hall of Destruction,' in which we see wobbling pillars representing stately country...

'Woman's Place Kenneth Hurren Comrades by August Strindberg (The Place) The Great Caper by Ken Campbell (Royal Court) There Goes the Bride by Ray Cooney and John Chapman...

Patrons of Sadler's Wells Theatre during the current season by the English Opera Group and the Royal Ballet could be forgiven for imagining that the questionnaire they are...

Floodtide Duncan Fallowell Juggernaut Director: Richard Lester. Stars: Richard Harris, Omar Sharif. 'A' Leicester Square Theatre (110 minutes) Varnpira Director: Clive...

Royal ragtime Robin Young Anyone could be forgiven for thinking the Royal Ballet has lost its sense of direction. The new season opened with the touring group at Sadler's...

Nicholas Davenport What a relief it is all over! For anyone concerned about economic truth the electoral campaign of half-truths, lies, deceits and concealments was an...

If one government after another abandons free enterprise in favour of an increasing amount of centralised interference and control, companies should be the last to complain....