20 JUNE 1970, page 10

A 'spectator' Symposium

Reflections on a general election BY SIX INDEPENDENT CONTRIBUTORS Kingsley Amis 'SLIGHTLY MORE OF A PLAGUE . . . on one of your houses.' Thus the heading of a piece I wrote for......

Spectator's Notebook

STRIX In a drought such as prevails at the time of writing I tend to feel smug, for two years ago the Conservators of the River Thames gran- ted me a licence to abstract water......