13 JULY 1956, page 18

The New Reporting

THERE arc times when television makes a newspaperman feel that his craft is becoming redundant. In Panorama last Monday Mr, Chataway interviewed several men who had lost their......

The Year Of The Somme

SIR,—Mr. John Borrow's article on the battle of the Somme is admirable in its description of that grim holocaust, but is materially wrong in its conclusion. The tank emerged in......

Contemporary Arts

English Opera WrrH philistine taxpayers firing on it from one side, philistine and snobbish voice-fanciers from another, and our greatest conductor from a third, Covent Garden......

Names And Places

SIR,—John Betjeman's note on names and places in the Spectator of June 22 recalls the comment of, I think, the New Yorker on the appointment of a new Governor of Eastern Samoa......