20 SEPTEMBER 1986, page 5

The Spectator

THE MUTINOUS BBC T he genesis of the story about the BBC's drama The Monocled Mutineer is rather strange. About ten days ago, the newspapers carried stories, presumably put......

Jazz In Jail

THE contrast is painfully eloquent: in Poland, virtually all political prisoners, including the leaders of Solidarity and several other opposition movements, are released under......

Backward Step

IN OUR issue of 8 March, Gavin Stamp complained about the plan of the Bishop of Stepney to close Hawksmoor's great church of St George-in-the-East, which stands in an area full......