Time for a change
This week's issue of the SPECTATOR has been redesigned, with the expert help of Geoffrey Cannon, from cover to cover. On the front we have reverted to the traditional format for a weekly journal of opinion, restyled in a mod- ern idiom. This allows more space for edi- torial comment, which will in future cover a wider range of topics.
At the same time the various sections of the paper now appear in a different order. The books section follows immediately after the general articles; then come the arts pages, then the money section and finally letters—a position which will make it easier for us to accept letters for publication at a late hour. 'Afterthought' returns to its for- mer position right at the end of the paper, after the letters. In addition, there is a ne%k feature, 'Personal Column'—a full-page un- hurried essay on a topic not dictated by the events of the week. In this issue Anthony Burgess writes on teachers; subsequent con- tributors will include Simon Raven, Auberor Waugh, Kenneth Allsop, J. H. Plumb and Strix—who exchanges this platform for his fortnightly endpaper. 'Spectator's Notebook will normally be written by J. W. M Thompson. Throughout we have widened the margins between the columns, and introduced a crisper typeface for all headings. Altogether-- we believe the restyled SPECTATOR is mot? attractive, more unified and easier to read than the old. We hope our readers will agree with us.
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