16 JANUARY 1971, Page 8

New Looks

This week's SPECTATOR welcomes as political corespondent Mr Hugh Macpherson, ex- draughtsman, ex-physicist, ex-chairman • of Glasgow University Labour Club, ex-politi- cal commentator on the New Christian, ex- writer for the Liberal News, and soon to be ex-Lobby Correspondent of the Scottish Sun- day Mail.

We also have given Miss Sally Vincent our seat in the Press Gallery of the House of Commons. She has seen and heard many things, but she has never before seen or heard our legislators about their Parliamen- tary business.

Our regular readers, too, will note a re-arrangement of the SPECTATOR, the objects being, first, to give it a definite beginning, middle and end, and. second, to introduce (as the middle) the Spectator Review of Books. This also brings us to the beginning of the end of the reorganisation of the SPECTATOR; and although the unfamiliar is very often un- welcome, we think the new arrangements make sense. We thank our readers for their tolerance of change: indeed, from a con- servative point of view, we congratulate them upon it