Lean Year

Sir: With all its faults the press is infinitely more interesting and, to my mind, infinitely more important than the degrading 'grin and blare it' box, with all its studio......

Cover Point

Sir: Mr Simpson (Letters, 29 November 1969) provided me with an interesting half- hour experimenting with Richard Willson's caricature of the Queen (15 November 1969), trying,......

Fathers And Sons

Sir: Would someone please suggest to Sir Denis Brogan that perhaps he might make a resolution for the New Year to restrain himself from incessant name-dropping in his articles......

Macchiavelli's Friend

Sir: In his review (6 December 1969) of my translation and edition of Guicciardini's History of Italy (Collier-Macmillan), Mr John Lamer fails to inform his readers that the......

Afterthought

Offensive JOHN WELLS A manuscript that may throw fresh light on forthcoming events in the world of politics, journalism and the arts has been unearthed by the Whitehall......

Competition

No. 587: Signs and wonders Set by Joyce Johnson: Competitors are invited to give an account of either the escape of the gunboats from Cherbourg into Haifa, or the capture of the......