16 JANUARY 1971, page 8

Murdoch Longs

But what of the quid pro quo, the reciprocal deal long talked of which would compensate Associated Newspapers for the ignominious loss of the Daily Mail to the Daily Express, by......

The Spectator's Notebook

Never can Fleet Street have come to so sorry a pass. The faces are long and ready to bitch; the backs are padded against stabs: never has the place been further removed, meta-......

Hilton Art

Our art critic, Mr Evan Anthony, who con- scientiously turns up at a great many more exhibitions than he can bring himself to write about, experienced an opening last week that......

Walker Wills

The conviction grows that the evident need of our Minister for the Environment, Mr Peter Walker—who has already been not very nice about historic town centres—to demonstrate to......

Donald Mclachlan

Had not Donald McLachlan been killed in a motoring accident in Scotland last week- end, we would have resumed soon the dis- tinguished commentary on the affairs of the press......

New Looks

This week's SPECTATOR welcomes as political corespondent Mr Hugh Macpherson, ex- draughtsman, ex-physicist, ex-chairman • of Glasgow University Labour Club, ex-politi- cal......