Opposing The General Of The Candidates Standing Against...
Gaulle, M. Francois Mitterand is likely to clean up most of the opposition votes. If he collects less than 25 per cent he will have done surprisingly badly. His candidature,......
The Dead Sea Scrolls Controversy
ALLEGRO By JOHN Nearly twenty years ago an Arab shepherd, on the trail of a lost goat from his flock near the north-western shores of the Dead Sea, stumbled upon a cave......
Lord Monckton
Walter Monckton, of all the men I have met in my public life, was the gentlest and the best loved. So even though the tiny village church at Folkington in Sussex is somewhere......
One Hour
To get the best, or indeed any, results from Socialist ministers you have to beat them regu- larly like women and gongs. It is becoming painfully clear now, that Mr. Wilson's......
Sad Reading There Are Admirable People On The Press Council,
but I wonder if they could not employ their time more fruitfully. The annual report issued this week makes sad reading as one ploughs through the accounts of the cases of......
Spectator's Notebook
O NE of the minor irritants of the Rhodesia situation is that events always happen on Wednesdays. For a weekly like the Spectator this is the worst possible time. Our function......
70 M.p.h.
In my occasional appearances as a poor man's Peter Simple I fire salvos in the direction of what I call the Nanny State. Mr. Fraser is, although you wouldn't think it, the......