Mr Chataway's Little Effort
Any breaking-up of the .BBC's monstrous empire cannot be wholly bad. Any chipping- off must leave the great monolith weaker than it was. The BBC broods over our lives like the......
The Spectator's Notebook
Budget Day was quite the balmiest day of this year so far. At exactly the time Tony Barber rose in the Commons, I saw a girl driving down Gower Street in an opened convertible,......
Design For The Times
I looked in the window of Heal's, the smart- furniture furniture shop, and saw five clocks on display. They had been given one of the Council of Industrial Design awards, and......
War Crime And Punishment
There was never much doubt about the technical and moral guilt of little Lt Calley and his squad. They obeyed superior orders when they should not have done so, and they......
Common Talk And Treacle Pud
Overheard in Turpin's restaurant, Hamp- stead, where they do a special Sunday roast- beef and treacle pud kind of English lunch, Norman St John-Stevas saying with his usual......
All Out Of Joint
A few days later I checked again, this time with a colleague, to make sure that the clocks still told different times. They did. (There was three-quarters of an hour differ-......
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
Seldom have I watched anything less funny than a series of 'jokes' about smoking taken from old silent films and shown on tele- vision last Sunday evening. There has al- ways......
Foreign Corresponding
Congratulations to the Daily Tele,eraph's young Simon Dring who, accompanied by Associated Press photographer Michel Laurent, appears to be the only reporter to have avoided......
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