17 JANUARY 1970, page 11

Consuming Interest

Dollar wise LESLIE ADRIAN At dinner time on that glad night when (un- known to me, three thousand miles away) restrictions on foreign travel expenditure were being lifted, I......

Population

Three's a crowd PETER J. SMITH The Select Committee on Science and Tech- nology, though in some ways the most successful of select committees, has often been criticised for the......

Television

Who will be boss? BILL GRUNDY You may have noticed an advertisment on the inside back page of last week's issue of the SPECTATOR. It was for applications for the post of......

A Hundred Years Ago

From the 'Spectator', 15 January 1870 — The full accounts of the new Chinese Treaty do not dispose us to regard it with more favour, and we doubt if it will be ratified. We have......