13 DECEMBER 1968, page 27

A Hundred Years Ago

From the 'Spectator', 12 December I868—The new Government would be a perfectly satisfactory one, were it not for a certain dimly perceptible want of tone. Though not a Ministry......

Changing Gear

HENRY TUBE Of the many novels and plays which have attempted to capture our new sub-culture, the world of the 'communicators," none has, to my knowledge, come near succeeding.......