9 APRIL 1977, page 13

The Present Of Knowledge

Christopher Booker There is a strange mood abroad in Western civilisation at the moment—a general sense that, after the frenzied forward rush of the 'sixties, we have suddenly......

Toilet-training

Beverley Nichols Now that Nancy Mitford has left us and Evelyn Waugh is communing with the Saints and John Betjeman is busy with royal occasions. . now that these leading......