Mr Peter Walker's extraordinary outburst last Sunday can be understood in so passionate an adherent of Mr Heath, twisting and turning in every possible way to thrown the light...

Mr Wedgwood Benn i s busy plucking of the rotten fruit of industry with expensiv ely borrowed money shows that "the u ltimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly...

Labour governments almost invariably show a maladroitness in the pursuit of foreign policy, especially where the curious emotions of their movement are involved, which is...

The Spectator will appear a day later than usual in order that comment on the Budget can be included. The issue will be available in London on Wednesday, and elsewhere in the...

Aside altogether from the scandalous bad manners with which she has treated the representatives of the medical profession the decision of Mrs Castle not merely to implement the...

Sir: There is a danger that demands for Mr Heath's resignation will be represented as a right wing plot. Already Mr Peyton's appointment, welcome though it is, has been...

From Mrs H. Quinn Sir: As a professed Liberal who voted Liberal in the last election I feel it incumbent on me to say that I entirely disagree with Lord Beaumont's article...

From Lord Drurnalbyn Sir: I can assure Mr Kleinman (October 26) that I am not in the least upset about the GKN advertisement affair. (It is all in the day's work!) Neither am I...

Sir: It was infuriating to read 41 Professor Eysenck's review of Er ie te Fromm's book (October 26), the s t8 1, - a - t ment "there is no evidence te ,;" psycho-analysis ever...

From Rev J. Morris " - Sir: It is an interesting observation of Your new theology critic Alan Brien that "Jesus is continually recast in the image , of his commentator." What...

Sir: Although I have read The Spectator weekly for something like sixty years, I am still puzzled by your use of owns de plume. Who are Tom Puzzle, Book-. buyer, Waspe,...

Patrick Cosgrave Some weeks ago I discussed a certain contraction of the imagination which has been evident in the conduct of British foreign policy whatever government has...

Mr Graham Greene is now the only one of that ri_einarkable collection of English writers who ``ve been converted to Roman Catholicism !,!ace the beginning of the century — G. K....

Charles R. Stahl Edgar Allan Poe first used the word 'gold-bug' in a short story published in 1843 and in fact entitled 'The Gold Bug.' The original meaning of the word was...

Public lending right is wrong Jon Elliott uf the most common malpractices of odern society is the 'foist,' a new term i t' I dicating all those decisions made by In dividuals...

TUC, is an almost nct bird with large, flat feet, and a cumbersome s 7 ci en 1 ::. I.t makes a loud, raucous squawk, and has birrtive !nstincts. The Pinkypipe is a small, round...

Master Heath hath this week laid claim to Wondrous Powers of Sympathetic Insight into the Minds of the Populace, declaring his Conviction that those who voted to Extinguish...

Philip Kleinman The image makers are these days increasingly worried about one particular set of images, their own. The worry affects not only the advertising industry, which...

Bill Grundy Since I am not a great lover of coffee, I don't have much use M r coffee tables. Which is a PO' because it means I've got nowhe re to put a book that's come my...

Denis Wood At the last meeting of the Gardeners' Committee of the Conspirators' Club, General Jacqueminot said, "We are on the eve of November 1, All Saints' Day, when the...

Bernard Dixon A hundred years ago next week, on November 15, 1874, one of my heroes was born. His name was August Krogh, 'and he was one of the last of the great scientific...

Martin Sullivan Psalm 139 is one of the most beautiful utterances in the whole of the Bible and one of the glories of the Psalter. It is a personal prayer, a man talking to...

It is probably unwise to contest the choices of the Booker Prize panel. Personal taste is, after all : strictly personal and the three judges, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Antonia...

Sir Brian Horrocks A Bridge Too Far Cornelius Ryan (Hamish Hamilton £3.95) This is unquestionably the. most brilliant account of a battle which I have ever read. Cornelius Ryan...

Sir Ian Jacob Charge! Hurrah! Hurrah! Donald Thomas (Routledge and Kegan Paul £5.50) The British Army has always contained men of unusual character, and in the nineteenth...

lienny Green 1 11 .e . Boer War was a final notice served on the t aritish that Wellin g ton was dead. There had ?,e en earlier hints to that effect, from Lord `--helmsford at...

Bookend Thank heaven for the Thomson Or g anisation. Just as it looked as thou g h the book trade was i n boring for a long winter, Lord Thomson's chief bookman Geor g e...

It's probably a vain hope, but I coquette now and then with the wishful idea that somebody, quite soon, will somehow discover positive proof that William Shakespeare, author of...

Dump' FaHowell Crystal Voyager Director: George Greenough. 1r Odeon St Martin's Lane (78 minutes) Fantastic Planet Director: Rene • Laloux. 'V Odeon St Martin's Lane (72...

seem a momentous musical occasion, especially if he is dead, but the Peter Warlock Society just c ouldn't bear to delay the celebrations until the centenary. Thus, on October...

I can think of no more fatuous excuse for public demonstration than that of the 'Save Piccadilly' Campaign, whose chairman, the American Ed Berman, announced last week that the...

The Spectator is currently running two prize contests for young writers. In addition to our annual £500 competition for sixth-formers (details on page 594 of this issue), there...

Nicholas Davenport The nervous holders of equity Shares and government bonds reacted badly to the Queen's Speech although it was couched in the mildest and most boring of...

Bernard Hollowoo d The sort of chap I envy — in my Walter Mitty daydreams — is a journalist friend who received his current Access•Card the other day, read the advice: Your...

The gilt-edged market has fallen and the cause as ascribed by the press is Mr Healey's potential borrowing requirement if all Mr Benn's ideas find expression in the budget. I do...

G. C. Draper By the end of the decade socioeconomic historians will have charted 1974 as the turning point in the declining fortunes of the Britsh travel industry. By then the...

Noel Baptiste There is little doubt that in the short term the part of the British travel industry selling overseas holidays will suffer from an adverse reaction at consumer...