Spectator's Notebook
Q UOODLE has departed. But I am glad to be able to begin my first Notebook by recording a last, posthumous, victory. Some weeks ago in these columns he drew attention to the......
Jo's Boys
So Jo Grimond has officially announced that he may retire from the leadership of the Liberal party later this year—that is, assuming (as Lad- broke's do) that there is an......
Down With Experts . . .
Talking of honours, the Government's last- minute rescue operation on Fairfield's shipyard should certainly be worth a gong or two. But was it worth doing at all? Last year the......
Political Commentary
The State of the Tories By ALAN WATKINS Now that Christmas is over and the shortest day is behind us we shall soon be looking forward In the spring and even to our summer......
. . . And Down With Competition Britain's First Experiment
in coin-in-the-slot television will start in 3,000 London homes this weekend, rising to 10,000 homes by the summer. You pays your money and you takes your choice. Six bob for an......
The Lawson Scandal And Now That Mortgage. I Think What
worries me most about the Lawson Affair—infinitely more than the handful of abusive letters, and more even than the occasional mildly obscene anony- mous telephone call to my......
Bc Zpectator
January 6. 1866 The Fenian trials have ended. The last ring- leader has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment, and the Government. it is said. do not intend to prosecute......
Orthodoxy Rewarded
If sterling is stronger this week it must surely be something to do with the knighthood awarded to the Bank of England's Maurice Parsons, that formidable pillar of financial......
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