1 FEBRUARY 1963, page 6

Spectator's Notebook

' T BELIEVE there is a good deal of disquiet in academic circles about appointments being made to posts in the new universities without the positions in question previously......

Pay As You View

I suppose that lack of interest as much as anything explains the Government's curiously muted proposals for a trial of Pay TV. But if television is ever going to establish......

Whaur's Yer Mcgonagall Noo?

Of all the little magazines which defy the withering winds of conformity, Lines, published occasionally by M. Macdonald: of Edinburgh at half a crown, must surely be the most......

Hartleberries

Because Tony Hartley is on the staff of the Spectator, his book, A State of England (Hutch- inson, 25s.) won't be reviewed in it. But the Editor will at least allow me to say......

In Principle

From CHANCHAL SARKAR NEW DEL141 A CARTOON in one of the principal Delhi papers shows the Indian Prime Minister and the Home Minister (Mr. Lai Bahadur Shastri) try- ing to drag......