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Charles Moore

The Spectator’s Notes | 29 April 2006

The last time there was a scare about the BNP was in the 1970s. People thought that the Labour government was ignoring them about immigration, and started to vote for the National Front, as it was then known. It was to head this off, in early 1978, that Mrs Thatcher, then leader of the opposition,

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Waiting for Gordo, by Margaret Beckett

‘You don’t have to be an intellectual to enjoy Beckett.’ A theatre critic, in this centenary year, wrote on Sunday, ‘You don’t have to be an intellectual to enjoy Beckett.’ Many theatregoers must also have thought that, for maximum enjoyment, it helps to be a pseudo-intellectual. Doubtless plenty of the people at present lauding Beckett

Space is illusory and time deceitful

‘Nothing puzzles me more than time and space,’ wrote Charles Lamb, ‘and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.’ ‘Nothing puzzles me more than time and space,’ wrote Charles Lamb, ‘and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.’ Well I do; more and more, as becomes someone