THE SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
The Government, and Lord Eccles in particular, is to be congratulated on its decision to build a national library, based upon the British Museum Library, on the Bloomsbury site adjacent to the British Museum. This represents a right and proper use of public money. One of the most deplorable errors of the Labour government—made under regrettable pressure from Lena Jeger, the Labour MP for the area, who should have known bet- ter—was to abandon the Bloomsbury site. Unlike the money squandered, say, on operatic and balletic pantomimes at Covent Garden and elsewhere under the aegis of the Arts Council, the money allocated to the creation of the new British Library should prove to be money well spent, spent in the right place for the right reason.
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