26 SEPTEMBER 1987, page 15

Can Ken Conquer?

Michael Trend on Mr Livingstone's plans for power at Brighton and beyond WRITING in the fourth century BC, using an image taken from nature, Aristotle repeated the following......

Ringing The Changes

Gavin Stamp argues that Mercury should make use of Telecom's rejected boxes THE news that Mercury Communications Ltd are applying to be allowed to operate a public telephone......

One Hundred Years Ago

THE electricians have at last given us what will prove an invention of infinite- ly more utility than the telephone — a writing telegraph. The telephone is absolutely useless......