4 JULY 1998, page 87

Pop Music

roovy, fab and happening Marcus Berkmann T he Spectator is 170 years old; pop music, by contrast, is only about 44. If The Spec is a wise, whiskery old bird, still vibrant and......

Architecture

The crisis of language Alan Powers I t is common to look back to the past for standards of normality with which to con- demn the outrages of the present. Archi- tecture, that......