17 MAY 1968, page 12

Brave New Bbc

TELEVISION STUART HOOD During the next two or three years the Bac will pass through a critical phase. It will have to ask Parliament for more money in the shape of an increased......

The Sage Of Sissinghurst

TABLE TALK DENIS BROGAN Harold Nicolson had many strings to his literary bow, but his weekly column in the SPECTATOR was the most continuing example of his pro- fessional skill.......

A Hundred Years Ago

From the 'Spectator, 16 May 18681-The second reading of Mr. Ewart's Bill introducing the metric system was carried on Wednesday by a vote of 217 to 65, an extraordinarily heavy......