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THERE IS no particular reason why the Sunday Dispatch should employ Mr. Muggeridge if it does not want to, but the ending of its arrangement with him is puzzling. It must have known his views on the Monarchy before it signed him up as a columnist. And it does not regard those who criticise the Monarchy as beyond the pale or it would not a few weeks ago have commissioned a long article from Lord Altrincham. On October 6 it announced that Mr. Malcolm Muggeridge, 'the most provocative writer in Britain' and 'one of Television's most unpredictable personalities,' had joined the Sunday Dispatch. On October 20 it announced that he would 'not write for the Sunday Dispatch in future.' His offence, it therefore seems, was to prove that something that had been written in the Sunday Dispatch was true.
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