10 DECEMBER 1954, page 7

Politics And Pensions

I T is now virtually certain that the Government will achieve the object which it set itself in the matter of pensions. The Bill will be passed through Parliament by Christmas.......

Marriage A La Mode

In a letter to the current issue of The Author Miss Pamela Hansford Johnson reopens a topic which periodically engages the distressed attention of the literary world. Can......

Juggernaut

I find something curiously evocative about the phrase, 'the Tory machine,' which one so often comes across in articles and speeches by Socialists. It conjures up a vision of......

The Falsehood Stakes

The Russians are the most unpredictable of liars, because It is often impossible to trace any connection at all between the lies they tell and the truth these lies are intended......

But For Whom . . .

An advertisement for Carrington VC. a film which Miss Virginia Graham will review next week, prints the names Of the stars in large letters and the names of the producer,......

The Stage-struck Press

I hear that Punch are planning to devise and produce a revue at a West End theatre next autumn. The sketches, lyrics and decor will be by the staff and regular contributors.......

A Spectator's Notebook

I N their attitude to the truth there has always been considerable variation between the nations of the world, . and several of those on whom veracity already sat but lightly......