13 DECEMBER 1968, page 6

The Past And The Present

LSE ORATION HUGH TREVOR-ROPER A historian, like other men, lives in the present: but his study is of the past; and coming as do from Oxford, where some vestiges of past habits......

Permissive Society

CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS Some years ago it required some pluck To print a word that rhymes with luck, And then no one would care a jigger For another word that rhymes with figure. And......