15 APRIL 1955, page 30

A Prize Of £5 Is Offered For An Extract From

a leading article in Newspeak on the retirement of Big Brother (see the appendix to Orwell's 1984). Limit 150 words. Entries, addressed 'Spectator Competition No. 270,' 99 Gower......

Spectator Crossword No. 830

ACROSS DOWN 1 Venus ensphercd at dusk? (6). 1 The wrong flavouring for the drink 4 Heads it is! (8). named (9). 10 The enthusiast at the polls is fatter 2 Thus below it's......

Better Than Butler ?

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 267 Report by Mervyn Horder Dean Swift suggested a tax on female beauty, to be assessed by the payers themselves. This he thought certain to be......