A 1947 issue, though the cheap paper, remarkably halfhearted attempt at centring and dubious letter spacing (the cavernous gulf between the ‘A’ and ‘W’ of ‘Shaw’ defies photographic representation) make it feel wartime. Not bad for a shilling all the same.

“The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They cannot spell it because they have nothing to spell it with but an old foreign alphabet of which only the consonants - and not all of them - have any agreed speech value. Consequently no man can teach himself what it should sound like from reading it; and it is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him.”