The Spectator is, as lain Macleod wrote when he was our editor, a Tory paper, but also a radical one. Since Macleod's death we have also, perforce, and without losing those...

Sir: Being on record in your and other correspondence columns as a consistent supporter of Mr Enoch Powell — and indeed, long before he became the popular national figure he...

Enoch? He also speaks for the best in his country and will not take part in the lie. Shall we doom him to the self-exile of an honest Englishman's disgust? If so, as the...

chance to get out of the EEC. The Labour Party alone offers this chance by a general election or referendum on new terms. The alternative is to stay in the EEC melting pot,...

Sir: The Financial Times's 'Men and Matters' column of February 13 raised the question of Where the idea of the industrialists' scheme to buy off the miners originated. As early...

Sir: Government ministers seem to wish us to believe that this election is going to centre around the issue of 'Who rules Britain?' But observer s might ask this question and...

e S ir: Like many of your readers, I am fr equent and completely unfounded attacks on the Prime Minister. Mr I:leath is not obsessed by any particular .neither does he lack the...

Beverley P e c b h °Is' report on Thorpe suggests, th e ,, ru arY 9) that ninety years after y ok - ' Were given the vote the Devon by els can be taken in or even pleased I s...

From Dr C. B. Goodhart Sir: Dr R. Willson-Hallett (Letters, February 9) raised two points which need to be clarified: 1. The figures he quotes for "total abortion deaths" from...

Sir: I am so glad that Mrs Madeleine Simms (February 9) has brought the 1939 Birkett committee's report into the present argument over abortion law reform. During the...

Egg on my face? Patrick Cosgrave Since I am writing before the general election actually takes place, I had better get the predictions that, at a time like this, his readers...

Has Harold Wilson had a stroke? There has to b i e some explanation for the striking difference between his bounce and vigour n the last couple of weeks of the old parliament...

John Vaizey The general opinion seems to be that the Common Market is widely unpopular, and if an election had been held on that issue alone it is highly probable that the...

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the -110our Party is proposing. According to its ani festo, a Labour Government will "imme diately set in train the necessary r i cedures," and at the same time will "stop...

White-collar strikers Graham Jones That the local government officers' union, NALGO, have decided to back their claim for a 20 to 26 per cent wages increase — well outside...

It is an old observation, which has been made of politicians who would rather ingratiate themselves with their electors than promote their real service, that they accommodate...

Peter Ackroyd "Who is it in the press that calls on me?" Julius Caesar, Act 1, Scene II. Lord Hartwell. the proprietor of the Telegraph, will not be having an election party...

Admen and elections Philip Kleinman The most memorable political advertisement I ever saw was the television spot — made by th e Democrats for the 1968 preside ntial...

Neglected resources Bernard Dixon "Adding alcohol to gasoline would help make the United States selfsufficient in energy and would build up an industry which could be expanded...

The world of God Martin Sullivan "When the New Testament speaks of 'the world,' it means human society organised apart from God." That is one quotation. Here is another —...

Early March Denis Wood Dear March — Come in—. How glad I am — I hoped for you before — E mily Dicin In the lanes weeping ow beginning to show catkins among wili k s a...

1 0 4 r a rdlY anyone understands the unions. Most Iv ' the studies and books about them are ritte n della as if by white hunters who have un ken a safari into a different...

George Axelrod The Injured Party Elaine Dundy (Michael Joseph E3) In 1958, Elaine Dundy wrote The Dud Avocado. In it she beguiled and amused us with a tantalising harbinger of...

Beverley Nichols' Challenge Vita Sackville-West (Collins E2. 50) Here they come again, these star-cross i ed , lovers, Vita Sackville-West and Vic H h e e . Trefusis, returning...

Basil Taylor Samuel Cooper 1609-1672 Daphne Foskett (Faber £6.50) amuel Cooper, the miniature painter, has u een, for an artist who never ventured it seems beyond the limits...

Colin Wilson Views from the Real World Early Talks of Gurdjieff as,Recollected by his Pupils (Routledge and Kegan Paul £4.25) When George Ivanovich Gurdjieff died in 1949,...

Alan Brien Marxism in our Time Isaac Deutscher (Cap e £1.25) Revolution in Judaea Hyam Maccoby (Ocean 75p) Someone once described a book review stuffed with quotations as a...

Bookend With the election only a few hours away, it is perhaps not the moment to dwell on the upheaval brought to the book trade by the present fuel crisis. It is true that on...

In its deepest crisis, the British film industry continues to give the impression of a deserted factory in which the unattended machinery goes on grinding out unsupervised and...

Smiling thru Clive Gammon __-Whatever the manifold horrors that await us after the election , vi e can all take a lesson in how t, ° . smile through a Depression (OP; ' tal...

ktarac i terised by Ginger Rogers in nte, or was it Maim? Anyway i to ` ° Ple clapped a lot because she c -1)1 coming down a spiral stair: ft s e in one outrageous get-up e o...

Life without illusions Kenneth Hurren Just to clear up a'small confusion that may be persisting, Henry IV, the play by Pirandello in which Rex Harrison is appearing at Her...

Waspe The animosity displayed by so many television reviewers towards the BBC and the ITV companies for their extensive coverage of the general election does not surprise...

Ralph Harris For all who have grasped the fundamental monetary nature of inflation, the economic issue at this election is not the price of milk, mortgages or mousetraps but...

The fettered giant Ivor Catt During the last four weeks I have written a series of articles discussing the chaotic state of a high technology industry, and the fee ble...

My finest hour — at least on a racecourse — took place at Kempton three years ago last Saturday. On that historic occasion (it was the first racing jaunt in a professional...

On Saturday I visited Birmingham to listen to Mr Enoch Powell make what I thought would be a memorable speech against British membership of the European Economic Community. He...