6 FEBRUARY 1959, page 8

Have Said Some Harsh Things Here In My Time About

commercial television, and 1 expect I shall say them again—or things of the same sort. So it is pleasant to be able to congratulate the Granada organisation which, and not for......

Mr. Woodruff Asks If I Had Forgotten That A Distributor

of Lolita was found guilty of publish- ing an obscene libel in 1956. I had-not forgotten, but am unable to see how those prosecutions are relevant. Mr. Woodruff can hardly......

Politics Or Technology?

By OLIVER STEWART A /ATION and politics are in a desperate grapple. The air transport engineer proposes, but the politician (not necessarily the one who sits in Parliament)......

A Former London Editor Of The Manchester Guardian Used To

say that his favourite headline, which he claimed to have seen in an evening paper, was: ALLEGED WEST-END CLUBMAN'S FATAL FALL OVER CAT preferring it to his own paper's :......