13 SEPTEMBER 1986, page 17

The Fag-end Of Power

Ian Waller remembers Macmillan's last years in office, and detects a similar decline in Mrs Thatcher's position FOR those with long memories the Gov- ernment's present condition......

Piltdown Bird

Brian Inglis on science's great cover-up of the fake fossil, Archaeopteryx THERE is one fossil which all Spectator readers would recognise, I imagine, even if the name escaped......