Best Of His Bad Job
Geoffrey Rippon, naturally and sensibly enough, is making the best of a bad job, trying to make good news out of what is becoming very bad news. He smiles all around, as if he......
The Higher Humbug
We print in our Review of Books two dis- cussions of Chomsky and his works. What seems to emerge is that not only has Chomsky's politics nothing to do with his undoubted......
Watch It, Propagandists
Special courses (complete with resident devil's advocate) have been run by the Tories' Central Office to accustom their chosen marketeers to apologise well on tele- vision. New......
The Spectator's Notebook
I have been very greatly reassured to learn, from, as they say, some of the very best sources, that my suspicious fears that the crucial Cabinet decision on the Common Market......
Wonderful Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky at forty-two is undoubtedly one of the wonders of the age. Everywhere he goes he pronounces and everywhere he pronounces the (student) young flock to listen. They......
A Beaut Of A Party
Des Wilson had a fab do 'last week to mark his departure as Director of Shelter, the charity for the homeless. The Guardian's Peter Jenkins went to Shelter's office in the......
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