12 JANUARY 1985, page 15

Do Not Go Gentle

Gavin Stamp O ne of many depressing events in 1984 was the 'retirement of Sir John Sum- merson from Sir John Soane's Museum. His reason, which is understandable but still......

Black, Not Ethnic

Malcolm Massiah T am going to be frank and earnest, not .1.`Frank and Ernest' as in pseudonyms or noms de plume, but frank and earnest with a small '1' and a small 'e', to be......