6 AUGUST 1988, page 21

Widening The Weekly Horizon

Robert Silver calls for a new magazine for the common reader PAUL Johnson, on The Spectator's 160th birthday, predicted a happy, if difficult, future for political weeklies.......

Effing And Blinding

A day out in sylvan Hackney proved less pleasant than expected for Roy Kerridge On a hot summer day, I set out from the Angel to walk to Hackney along the banks of the Regent's......