Sparking Plugs
Sir Charles Snow and the Bishop of Woolwich have been modestly wondering why their words should have sparked off such furious controversies. Looking back, in The Times Literary......
A Spectator's Notebook
L ABOUR leaders have always, naturally enough, been rather less confident in private than in public about the likely outcome of the general election. Now that the Tory......
Pushed Out
I am told by someone who was in (but only just) Conference Room D of the Cabinet Office for the press conference on the Robbins Report last week that Lord Robbins was not......
Thank Them No Thankings
I found it a little odd that the Sunday Telegraph in the course of a well-deserved editorial tribute to Encounter should have chosen to assert that the magazine enjoys a subsidy......
Seferis The Greek I Was Delighted That The Nobel Prize
for Literature should have gone to George Seferis, formerly the Greek ambassador here. I last saw him shortly before he left London. With his characteristic interest in young......
The Trial
E ABLISIIED American political authority has developed the custom of referring to the events of last summer and fall as 'the Negro revolution' in its public language; but its......