T EM report on corporal punishment by the Advisory Council on the Treatment of Offendeis could hardly have been published at a more appropriate time. The Right wing of the...

al- ready owned half the share capital of its British subsidiary at Dagenham, offered more than £130 million for the rest of the shares—and absolute Ownership and control. A lot...

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W E mentioned last week how unwise it is to pay too much attention to promises made in the Queen's Speech. the Bills when published so often turn out not to be reforms, but...

T HE problem of the South Tyrol--or the Alto Adige, as the Italians call it—is not, measured against the world's other minority difficulties, very urgent. It is a nuisance,...

T HE Central African Federal Government's pathological resentment of criticism simplY reflects its realisation that it has something to hide. Sir Roy Welensky underlined the...

I am ashamed that one of my countrymen can be kicked to death on a public foot- path by hooligans in search of money. I am ashamed of a country which can think of nothing...

From SARAH P ERHAPS because both Italians and Austrians are connected in the mind with operatic Postures the South Tyrol question* is often con- sidered funny; it is even said...

T o say that Kingsley Martin has done a valuable service to the Spectator by his thirty years as editor of the New Statesman may sound facetious; but it is none the less true....