A Hundred Years Ago
From the 'Spectator, 1 May I869—The Directors of the Imperial Gas Company have issued a report upon the defalcations of Benjamin Higgs, their clerk on £145 a year, who has......
Consumer's Choice
Sir: In 'Spectator's notebook' (25 April) Mr Thompson makes a fundamentally invalid analogy in his defence of the Third Programme on grounds of freedom of choice. While it is......
Towards A New Balance Of Power
Sir: Tibor Szamuely (14 February), compar- ing Russia and China, remarks that China, unlike Russia, was not expansionist in the past and has not pursued expansionist policies......
In The Pink
Sir : With reference to Mr Martin Seymour- Smith's review of the Cowden Clarke book (25 April), I wonder if, it -wou14 , be of interest to give Keats's fascinating vignette of......
The Whole Hog
Sir: Is Mr Lasky (Letters, 25 April) quite serious? I suppose so. I fear so. He writes of the 'exploitative manipulation' by which the Establishment drives large numbers of......
Sir: I Have Read The Effusions Of Mr Bown (letters,
4 and 18 April) and of Mr Jackson (Letters, 11 and 25 April) with great interest, and in the substance of the debate, whether standards of morality are to be chosen by the......
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