12 JUNE 1959, page 7

The Most Widely Reported Feature Of The Metro- Politan...

Commissioner's instructions to the police this week was that they ought to be friendly in their manner to motorists. What struck me as being a good deal more important was his......

Westminster Commentary

The Parliament of Plots By PETER KIRK, MP (TAPER is on holiday) IN his delightful reminiscences, Claud Cockburn recalls the occasion when he fled from the employment of The......

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Mark Bonham Carter WESTMINSTER COMMENTARY Desmond Donnelly PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN RUSSIA Henry Fairlie THE BRITISH RADICAL Richard H. Rovere CROSSING THE PICKET LINE Evelyn Waugh on......

A Spectator's Notebook Lord Hailsham Has Every Reason To Be

pleased that the two Blackpool stewards who were prosecuted by the League of Empire Loyalists for assault at last year's Con- servative Party Conference were acquitted, but I am......

Lord Hailsham Is Also, I Fear, Misinformed If He Thinks

that American experience with pay-as- you-view television 'has not so far proved encour- aging.' PAYV has never been tried in America— nor, so far as 1 am aware, anywhere else.......

Talking To A Conservative Businessman A Few Weeks Ago I

was interested to hear him assert that the Government had now only one thing to worry about : not the gold reserves nor the summit, but the railways. His argument was that in,......

I Cannot See Why The Government Should Be Cool To

the idea of a NATO Court of Justice. The proposal, which is not new, has now been taken a stage further by the Atlantic Congress; a study group is to investigate new methods of......

I Am Glad To Hear From The Hulton Press That

they have no intention of ceasing to publish Lilliput. About three months ago The Times and other newspapers reported that Odhams had made an offer for Hultons, and that the......