Recently in our columns Lord Richard Cecil advised the Government, in regard to its Ulster policies, to govern or get out: in a grimmer and more threatening situation that...

Addressing stockholders at the 47th Annual General Meeting of Imperial Chemical Industries Limited, held in London on May 20th, the Chairman, Mr Jack Canard, said: "You will...

Mr Heath has well deserved his warm welcome to Peking for, from the beginning of his period as Prime Minister, he pursued a clear-headed and logical policy of reconciliation...

Sir: The majority of your contributors and correspondents indicate by their writing a working knowledge of the situation in Ulster, regardless of their views; but of all the...

Sir: Your 'Senior Officer's' article on the subject of Defence and Deterrence presents an admirable picture of the military mind at work. It is all good Staff College stuff with...

Sir: I am a voluntary resident in Battersea, but an unwilling constituent of Douglas Jay. Therefore you can imagine my irritation at being exposed to another instalment of his...

Sir: Skinflint's observations on the EEC and CBI (May 18) are of particular interest as, ever since the beginning of the 'great debate' in 197! , I have been arguing against...

A.s a fellow Conservative candidate s a t the last election I find Mr Raffan's 2 t alYsis of the Party's defeat quite vxt raordinary. , He argues that there is a great need t o...

Sir: Was Mr G. K. Chesterton really quite so silly in his old age as Mr Simon Raven in your issue of May 11 so greatly wants us to believe? In his distributive writings G. K....

Sir: As the correspondent mentioned in Mr Graham Jones's article (Spectifor, May 18) perhaps you would allow me to make a few comments. Firstly, the Editor of the Glasgow...

From Rev D. Nadin Sir: It was refreshing to read the comments by Humphry Berkeley (Natural and Unnatural, May 11). With the recent freedom to express one's sexuality and to...

• • ership of the Common Market. So let us is r nake an estimate: what about January 1975? C .early the event will be unprecedented, so :s vtlIat about the instruments? There...

Stopping Ulster's clock Rawle Knox Londonderry Join the Army: become a professional and deliver the milk at Ballynacally Beg. That was the prospect that deterred the Army last...

arid if they hadn't Alastair Buchan d a day or two it will be thirty years since the 5' !eatest feat of organisation in human history d ;as accomplished — D-Day, the assault on...

New look at Ho Chi Minh Bill Manson Ho Chi Minh was at a party. He caught sight of Monsieur Sainteny, French delegate to Hanoi. He ignored all the Eastern diplomats and strode...

Dock dilemma David W. Wragg It is almost two years since the last nue dock strike hit the British economy, leaving I others to take their turn at the now title" ; honoured...

Ashton, claiming firmly Six Would sell themselves for 'dirty tricks', Says in the interests of the nation There should be an investigation. It's generally agreed it's fair That...

!Yg4titicker by sail? d ver Stewart a prodigious banging of cannon the 0 fil e ht racing season has burst upon us. May's H^ a tUres have included the Seine Bay, Le Y , 1r0 re,...

Those men (and, for that matter, women) are only truly great who place their ambition rather in acquiring to themselves the cons cience of worthy Enterprises than in the...

TODAY Going straight on bent money in Scarlet "I quite like window cleaning. You meet interestin' people. Trouble is that it gives you too much time to think." Arthur is...

From the Gallery Bill Grundy As I slide slowly into the sere and yellow, I notice that daily I am getting dottier. This manifests itself in many ways, but in none more surely...

Looking for a cause Philip Kleinman The International Advertising Association is a body which, as far as the majority of admen in this country are concerned — to the extent...

Freedom for England It has been officially and joyfully stated that North Sea oil should make Britain self-sufficient in energy supplies by 1980. What has not been stated IS...

Petty cash John Linklater The largest slice of the cake goes to those who make the loudest noise. We all wholeheartedly endorse much of the vociferous and effective militancy...

Situation vacant Martin Sullivan So Donald Coggan, Archbishop of York, is to be translated to Can terbury. He was strongly tipped and few people were taken by surprise. How...

Year of the elms Peter Quince It is proving a remarkable year for the elms in my part of England, one of those occasional season when these trees produce flowers and then seed...

Religous books Richard Luckett on two paths to wisdom Two Classes of Men was originally the title of a celebrated essay by Charles Lamb, but the division examined by David...

. 1 . Enoch Powell Religion in Ancient History, Studies in ideas, rnen and events S. G. F. Brandon (George A llen and Unwin .. £6.00) This book comes out three years after the...

Elizabeth Jane Howard Hell And The Victorians Geoffrey Rowell (Clarendon Press £4.85) The title of this book is misleading. Most people would infer from it that they were in...

Blasphemers united Henny Green E very Tuesday and Thursday after morning Assembly at Clipstone Junior Mixed, the school split into twin streams flowing into a djacent...

Clockwork cuckoos Peter Ackroyd Ending Up Kingsley Amis (Jonathan Cape £1.95) The Little Hotel Christina Stead (Angus and Robertson £2.25) There was a time, before...

Ronald HingleY Chekhov Sophia Laffitte (Angus and Robertson £3 . 50) . This is a desultory and moony mood-piece about Chekhov, originally published in French in 1963 and now...

OF THE ARTS Duncan FaHowell on nudity with a pall of solemnity Oh! Calcutta! Directed by Guillaume Martin Ancian. Stars: none. Classic, Piccadilly Circus. Classic, Victoria...

Crazy Ladies Clive Gammon The Walter Mitty idea, which was a laugh-riot in 1948 when the film came out of Thurber's story, has worn somewhat thin over the years with the...

Revolting peasants Kenneth Hurren The Great Society by Beverley Cross, with Geoffrey Whitehead, Peter Postlethwaite, Bernard Miles (Mermaid, London) Living Together by Alan...

W aspe Happy though I am to see the struggling Daily Express getting a full-page ad. from ATV of which they can boast mysteriously on the front page: "The selling power of the...

The market prospect Nicholas Davenport Pirst I must correct a misprint about my illness. I have not really , b een ill but very angry. After atLending an investment meeting at...

Charles Stahl Consolidated Edison, a major public utility company in the State of New York, passed its dividend for the first time since 1885; New York's Franklin National...

At 'last Members of Parliament have been shamed into voting by a large majority to establish a compulsory register of their interests. What this will mean when it has been...