5 JANUARY 1985, page 5

Desperate Rejoicing

Vor Indians everywhere the last three days of 1984 were markedly different to the rest of the year. At last something had happened about which they could rejoice; but there was......

Notes

W hatever defects Arthur Scargill may possess, laziness is not among them. He has devoted the utmost effort to lead- ing the present assault, begun by unconsti- tutional action......

Ted Deacon

A link with the Spectator's Gower Street days has been broken by the death of Mr E.T. Deacon, for many years the magazine's sales manager. He joined the staff when John St Loe......

Bleak Prospect

A t last 1984 is over. Poor Orwell: he really did not deserve all the fuss about the year. As we now know, his book's title was entirely arbitrary and was achieved by......

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