27 DECEMBER 1957, page 9

Consuming Interest

S OME months ago I offered a list of recom- mended London restaurants to any Spectator reader who would like one. The list was really in tended for people who live in the......

The Forbidding Fifties

By STRIX T HAVE a distrust of labels. I When I was young the vogue for them, though vestigial by modern standards, was not to be ignored. The age-group, the income-bracket, even......

City And Suburban

By JOHN BETJEMAN It seems almost incredible that the town coun- cil of so glorious a city as this should deliberately plan to murder its greatest asset as it is going to do on......