Bernard Levin
No one admires Bernard Levin more than 1, or more than any reader of the SPECTATOR who remembers the venomous sense of in- jury and grievance, and yet the tolerance, of his Taper column.
Perhaps because of an advertising lull half a page of the Sunday Times Business News has been devoted to a house advertisement for his bi-weekly column in the Times. This column has not yet become as scalding as we expect of one of the highest paid column- ists on Fleet Street, but it is already far better than the extracts Mr Denis Hamilton's advertising department have selected to tan- talise us with.
For instance: 'All Dutch cyclists are mad, and ought to be locked up.'
The Government's plan to return parts of the nationalised industries to the private sector, is .not based on any doctrinaire or ideological theory, and still less is itl moti- vated, as suggested by certain disrespectful persons, by a feeling that it would be rather Jolly to sell the nation's property to their friends, accompanied (in the case of those of their friends who are too monumentally in- competent even to stagger away with the loot Without attracting attention) by appropriate sweeteners.'
Quite acceptable but hardly the old Taper.
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