26 APRIL 1968, page 31

The Fry Affair

Sir: What has happened to the English lan- guage? Mr Randolph Churchill writes ( 12 April): . . the SPECTATOR and myself got the action struck out' and . . so far the SPECTA-......

Les Carnets De Milord Thomson

AFTERTHOUGHT JOHN WELLS The capitals of Europe have been trembling for the past week with the shock waves that heralded the greatest journalistic earthquake of the century.......

No. 498: The Word Game

COMPETITION Competitors are invited to use the following ten words taken from the opening passages of a well-known work of literature, in the order given, to construct part of a......

No. 496: The Winners

Trevor Grove reports: Competitors were asked to compose an octet, using the given rhymes, on one of the following subjects: the Cabinet Mark II, the Suffragettes, the censor and......