Some Weeks Ago I Received The Sum Of
£4 13s. 6d. as change for a purchase I had made out of (as I thought) a £1 note. When I queried the amount, I was told that I had handed over a fiver; and on investigation, I......
The Independent Television Authority
has been scared out of Its few wits by the mounting criticism of breaches of the Television Act. Mr. Christopher Mayhew's Bill to fix by statute the amount of ad- vertising......
Whether Or Not Mr. Carleton Greene Makes A Good Head
of the BBC, it is good to see a dedicated BBC man get the post; the practice of handing such jobs around to the faceless men from the Forces is a thoroughly bad one. I have been......
Why, Incidentally, Did The Bbc Have To Prevaricate About The
impending appoint- ment? I first saw Mr. Greene's name mentioned as a possible successor to Sir Ian Jacob several weeks ago In a Sunday news- paper, but the list of other......
I Admire The Wrr, As I Deplore The Parochial Primness,
of whoever it was that added to the railway-station poster which proclaims: HARWICH FOR THE CONTINENT the pencilled postscript: AND PARIS FOR THE INCONTINENT PHAROS......
The Magistrates Of Swindon, Who Have Jointly Held The Title
of Ass of the Century since they solemnly declared The Decameron obscene and ordered it to be burnt, must yield up the title and the trophy to Mr. W. S. Wigglesworth, Chancellor......
A Spectator's Notebook
HAVE SELDOM SEEN a more nauseating exhibition of egotism . . . A self- satisfied prig if ever I saw one, completely satisfied about his rights.' This is not, as one might......
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