23 JANUARY 1971, page 7

We Quite .understand

What has now happened to Miss Wid- dicombe is this: that she has been taken on to the full-time staff of the Financial Times, and having discussed with the FT her col- umn here,......

Poole's Leaky Theory

It is nice to be vindicated once in a while, particularly following a gross error. Like most commentators, 1 regretted the way in which I had allowed myself to be misled by the......

Post-milk -paperm An

The postal strike business recalls a project once taken seriously by the International Publishing Corporation in its palmy days before the Reed takeover. It occurred to Edward......

Old Moore's Quack-quack

I had not expected to revert to the matter of Covent Garden or to the antics of its chairman, Lord Drogheda (born Garrett Moore, nicknamed Donald Duck). Quite against my......

Post-election Wilson

There has been an excessive amount of Wilson-knocking lately, all of it, naturally, emanating from within his party. Since he is the best leader they have got, or are likely to......

The Spectator's Notebook

The Government, and Lord Eccles in particular, is to be congratulated on its decision to build a national library, based upon the British Museum Library, on the Bloomsbury site......