18 NOVEMBER 1980, page 17

The Coming Of Wit

Nicholas Mosley The philosopher Karl Jaspers suggested that a turning point in human history occurred around 500 BC — an age in which there lived Socrates, the Greek Tragedians,......

Daylight Saving

Sir: I wonder whether it might be possible to provoke some discussion through your columns regarding a radical idea which I have and which, I claim, would not only make man's......

The Archbishops' Letter

Sir: On 8 October a letter was read out in all Anglican churches from the two archbishops declaring their belief in the maintenance of a fully-ordained ministry of the present......

Ars Poetica

Sir: In the verse you kindly published the other day to celebrate the forthcoming election of a new Professor of Poetry at Oxford, I forgot to include mention of John Jones. As......