27 JUNE 1970, page 11

Personal Column

Metrication mania CHRISTOPHER BOOKER If you were told that during the past five years, the Labour government was devising a scheme which would probably have as much direct......

Oxford Letter

On signs and portents MERCURIUS OXONIENSIS GOOD BROTHER LONDINIENSIS, Alack, alack, we are now both utterly un- done! How to explain that fatall miscarriage of my long letter......