Spectator Book of Wit, Humour and Mischief

Approaching its 200th birthday in the rudest of health, the Spectator is known for the quality of its writing and the deep eccentricity of some of its writers. Given the freedom to say what they want, they take that freedom and more, and the result is original, provocative, often very funny, sometimes plain wrong.

From Jeffrey Bernard''s reports from the Soho frontline and Auberon Waugh fulminatin...