13 MARCH 1971, page 27

Skinflint's City Diary End Of Sketch

So the Sketch is to close and its title be merged with the Daily Mail from May. It does credit to Vere Harmsworth, the chairman, that he didn't give the tits and tips formula......

Making Freeman

Best wishes to Britain's former ambassa- dor to Washington and certified socialist establishment figure John Freeman, who has been made Chairman and Chief Executive of London......

Sum Of Sorrows

It is a matter of general comment that since Andreas Whittam-Smith, formerly editor of the Guardian Business Section, became editor of the Investors Chronicle (which was never......

A Share Of Security

Social security, redundancy payments and Wage-related unemployment benefits, as well as the Health Service that Mr Anthony Harris and the Guardian aficionados relish, are being......

Curious Thought

The Labour voters in Arundel and Shore. ham have made a mistake in not adopting Humphry Berkeley as the Labour candidate in the hopeless fight they have before them in the......

Weekly Frolic

With a double helping of horses this week, there is, fortunately no space to dwell upon the slight jolt to my fortunes last Saturday. The SPECTATOR'S deadline could hardly be......

Mollycoddling Equity

Equity, the acting profession's trade union, appears not to be living up to its name by persuading Mr Carr that actors should be exempt from the provisions of the indus- trial......