1 MAY 1971, page 27

Dogs Eating Dogs

I make a very safe prophecy. In the next two months dog will be doing its level best to eat dog in Fleet Street. The tabloid Mail- Sketch comes out on Monday. The old Mail will......

Skinflint's City Diary Wheel-less Spin-off

Mr John Davies, Mr Heath's least jocose choice, has announced, as expected, Foulness as the third London airport, and if a third airport is really needed thank goodness for......

Provincial Team

On the face of it, the Express team to fight the new war looks most provincial. Out goes the highly political animal Derek Marks. In comes fifty-four-year-old teetotal Scotsman......

Out Of This World

Hard-pressed newshawks need the occasional titbit like the Lord Blandford-Tina Onassis divorce to keep up the jaded interests of their readers at dull times. When it is the son......

In The Clover

William Brandt and Co, the merchant bankers backed by big five bank money, were determined to get in early on the play in backing what they thought was to be a new go-go......

Foulness By Another Name

A name, they say, is wanted for the new air- port. Under Mr Harold Wilson we should have been stuck with some toadying title like Queen Elizabeth or Prince Charles airport. My......

Expatriating Precedent

Here is my piece of odd information: since the end of World Warn the British govern- ment has been making financial contribution towards the fares of British subjects migrat-......