30 AUGUST 1975, page 17

Will Waspe

The justification for having in London such lavishly subsidised theatre companies as the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the English Stage Company at the......

Book Marks

A new bookshop is always welcome but there is a delicate irony to this month's opening of the Greater London Council shop in Charing Cross Road. When, five years ago, publisher......

Spectator Peregrinations

I find it very hard to take seriously the calls for everlasting world peace made by Kenneth Rose's friend Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minister Takeo Miki to mark the thirtieth......