20 MARCH 1971, page 5

Necessary, Did You Say?

I can see that a pro g ramme desi g ned to shock youn g people into realisin g the unpleasant and dan g erous nature of VD could perform a useful service, particularly if......

Why Encourage Smoking Then?

Dr Francis Kellerman, to whom for his vi g orous and successful advice to stop smok- in g I personally am enormously indebted, wrote in these pa g es last January pointin g out......

Ford Talks Bunk

Henry Ford n's views are in part very salutary and welcome, but he talks rubbish when he asserts: 'There is nothin g wron g with Fords of Britain—but with the coun- try'. This......

No Parliamentary Vote?

Senior shadow Cabinet ministers, some of whom are now merely emotionally attached to the Market because of political and personal friendships and have lost their earlier......

Spectator's Notebook

In a g lib way, I used to remark that Calcutta was the only town in which I would be inclined to join the Communist party. The drive in from Dum-dum, where the bullets came......