21 JANUARY 1984, page 15

Towards Economic Self-rule?

Allan Massie T hat Scotland is badly governed is a truism. We experience government which is simultaneously excessive, remote and irresponsible. It is excessive because it has......

The Spectator

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The Press

Sunday mag wasteland Paul Johnson I s there anything more depressing than looking through a bunch of six Sunday newspaper colour magazines? Yes, there is: looking through two......

One Hundred Years Ago

Mr Barnum, misled by the en- thusiasm manifested in this country for Jumbo, evidently thinks that the English are susceptible about elephants, and has sent over a beast......