NTICIPATING the Government's forthcoming state- ment on defence, the Daily Mirror has issued its own White Paper, as the fourth of its worthy `Spotlight' pamphlets. Mr. William...

T HE result of the South Norfolk by-election should have a calming influence on Parliament when it reassembles next week. It is now inconceivable that the Govern- ment will risk...

T HE televising of 1984 produced a lamentable display by the public. People were so mesmerised by Big Brother that it never occurred to them to switch him off. Instead they...

The chief count in the latest indictment for perjury against Professor Lattimore has again been dismissed by Judge Youngdahl. In May, 1953, the same judge, who was appointed by...

The Kenya Government's action in decreeing a general amnesty both for members of Mau Mau and for those loyal Kikuyu guilty of atrocities in their fight against the terronsts is...

will be freedi-and Mr. Foster Dulles has been at pains to explain that the invasion of Yi Kiang Shan is anything but a casus belli. There must be some justification for all this...

AS YOU WERE

The war between Nicaragua-based guerrillas and the demo- cratic Government of Costa Rica has been waged on a tiny scale; but unrest in Central America is a recurrent nightmare...

M. BEV,AN is once again turning the tables on the prophets and his critics. When he withdrew from both the Shadow Cabinet and the Na tonal Executive Committee of the Labour...

Mr. Jim Campbell, the general secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, has no inhibitions about kicking an opponent who is down. Flushed with victory, he boots out at...

THE CAPTURE by Chinese Communists of a small, outlying island of the Tachen archipelago revives in my mind a chimeri- cal theory about the possible use of small-scale atomic...

Travel and Holidays Association against the 'lack of facilities' granted to its registered guides at Windsor Castle, where only the resident guides—a handful of ex-Service...

Knight. The latter, it wrote, 'derive largely from an attitude fashion#e in Right-wing circles, which. insists that the outward forms of religion shall be respected while it...

the next issue of the Spectator these notes will be written by the enigmatic and redoubtable Picador.' This, I am happy' to say, will be a permanent arrangement,' though Strix...

the Antarctic are concealed is lifted, an intriguing situation may be disclosed. The Americans, I understand, intend to establish, and to keep open for one year, a...

By GEORGE GALE FTER all the fuss and shouting, a Court of Inquiry and Cabinet meetings during the holidays, late-night drama at the Ministry of Labour and Sir Walter Monckton...

By C. S. LEWIS W E have had a good deal of discussion lately about what is called obscenity in literature, and this dis- cussion has (very naturally) dealt with it chiefly from...

The Loaves and Fishes By JOHN STRACHEY A S one conies down the road froth the north, the Sea of Galilee glints in the heat. By the side of the road there is a half-built church...

By MARTIN BOND W HILE much has been heard in the last ten years of promises and achievements in 'the construction of local authority houses, surprisingly little reference has...

excuse to suggest that we should both sit down instead of standing about until lunch was served. 'Oh, I don't want to sit down,' he declared. 'No, but I do,' I replied. 'And...

list of birds put outside the law in the simplification of the Protection of Birds Act, 1954, which came into force at the beginning of December, I was pleased to find, when all...

enjoyment and physical pleasure are. Yesterday, on the way 'over the tops.' as the moorland plain is called, I encountered two sportsmen with guns under their arms and hands...

to ignore the protests of the people it represents is nothing new in local politics. But its further decision to disregard the advice it sought from the Royal Fine Art...

of Brighton, the best-lit borough in the country, where the Corporation has taken care to produce main-road lighting which in day- time is not an offence to the eye. Paddington,...

and the Houses of Parliament, one of the three great additions to the London skyline.

shop last week where they sell baby crocodiles. But this is not the season for buying crocodiles. They become available in April and May, as do snakes. So I asked instead for a...

taken should by now have been cut back to within a few inches of the ground. The cuttings are taken just below soil level, trimmed to a point below a node and treated with...

was an open incitement to crime and as such should be repudiated by you unequivocably. You must know that most of your readers believe that sodomy is not only an offence...

Stit,—It is a long time since Tread in the Press a notice which is so shocking, and indeed dis- gusting, as the article in your current issue headed 'A Biological Homosexual's...

appeared in your issue of January 7 under the heading 'Enosis'? In the one, Mr. Harold Soref says that the Cypriot Greeks in Cyprus and in London are indifferent to enosis; in...

Rossides Homosexuality W. J., A. N. B. Birch C. Paxman Tiptaft Film Censorship Michael Croft, James Logan Unconditional Surrender J. P. Bardsley South African Schpols E. Harris...

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Spare the Rod were interesting but irrelevant. I agree with him, and am in no need of his instruction on the point that 'some of the world's finest films have been made on a...

has been reported in Britain that Adams.Collegc, one of the foremost boarding schools for Africans in the Union of South Africa, has been closed by the Government. We hope you...

year and was happy to be able to tell you that I liked more features in the Spectator than I disliked. Taken as a whole, I have enjoyed your paper for a good number of years....

situation in the previous week's Spectator was very disappointed by your leading article in this week's issue. Surely the crux of the case lay in the Court's finding that :...

such a way that it is impossible not to feel sympathy towards him, and the others are shown as ordinary human beings desperately struggling to make the best of a had job. When...

The Rules of the Game. By Luigi Pirandello. (Arts.) WHAT is the most destructive thing in the world? I take, it that Pirandello's answer to this leading question might have...

ART THREE weeks ago I wrote that 'it is our curious system to assist promise to germinate, while failing to assist it to flower.' Two current Lon- don exhibitions may seem to...

THREE new ballets within a fortnight suggests a liveliness and invention not commonly found in English ballet circles; the double bill of Ashton works at Covent Garden early...

noises of animals. Miss Bruce Lockhart told us that her two lull-terriers had listened to the programme with her and had looked at the radio 'with detached intellectual...

Woman's World. (Carlton.)—Simba. (Leices- ter Squarc.)—Welcome, Mr. Marshall, (Curzon.) As an Englishwoman it is impossible not to look with envy on American women who, it...

THE Old Bailey Sessions closed on Wednesday. Sixteen persons have been sentenced to trans- portation for life; fourteen to transportation for fourteen years; sixty-four to...

The Heresy of Democracy By T. E. UTLEY D EMOCRACY is out. The symptoms of this have been multiplying for a long time : Mr. Oakeshott generating scepticism from his Chair while...

The Augustan World. Life and Letters in Eighteenth - Century England. By A. R. Humphreys. (Methuen, lbs.) MR. HumPiiRr.vs's Augustan world picture is benevolent and largely...

The Inter-War Years and Other Papers. A selection from the writings of Hubert Douglas Henderson, edited by Henry Clay. (Clarendon Press, 42s.) AN appetite for the economic...

All Day Long. Edited by Pamela Whitlock. (Oxford l , 21s.) PART-AUTHOR of several wisely read novels for children, Miss Whitlock should be well qualified to .choose poetry for...

We Are Utopia. By Stefan Andres. (Gollancz, 7s. 6d.) Good Morning, Miss Dove. By Frances Gray Patton. (Gollancz, • 10s. 6d.) HERR ANDRES'S short novel We Are Utopia is the...

Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Fifth Edition, edited by Eric Blom. (Macmillan, £36.) STATISTICS first-9 volumes; 8,516 pages of roughly 1,000 words per page; 75...

Three prizes of eight guineas each are offered to boys and girls at school in the United Kingdom or Eire for (a) a story 4 of not more than 1,500 words, lb) an essay of not...

Ecolsiomic history has not yet received the attention it deserves. Those who wish to have an introduction to the subject, and students who wish to find how far the research of...

to Samuel Johnson. By A. C. Ward. (Longmans, Green and Co., 25s.) THE best feature of this book is undoubtedly the contribution of Miss Elizabeth Williams, who has selected and...

by Nadine Peppard. (Harrap, 30s.) No disrespect is intended to the authors. of this hook in describing their anthropology as amateur. They admit themselves that they embarked...

FINANCE AND INVESTMENT By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT Tuts is the season for the bank chairmen's annual homilies and we look for the usual evidext of sound economic or classical...

By CUSTOS , THE Stock Exchange account ended on ruesday with a good deal of irregularity. fhis was due to profit-taking which was no doubt 'prompted, as far as 'investment'...

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The winners Of Spectator Crossword No. R16 Lire as follows: First prize Chambers's Twentieth Century, Dictionary, New Version, is recommended A copy of the De Luxe edition of...

this issue begins a series of extracts from ;he Spectator of 125 years ago : but even more interesting would be extracts from 125 years hence. A prize of £5 is offered for a...

The usual prize was offered for an extract from a speech on the lines of the 4merican 'State of the. Union' message by the head of one of the following : Ruritania, Lilliput,...