Mr. Gaitskell On The Rack
By HENRY FAIRLIE N event whose importance it is still impos- sible to calculate has taken place in the past week. The leaders of the two major political parties in Britain have......
Po Liticians
on the Air I notice that the Labour Party is coming in for a good deal of criticism for its reaction to Kenneth Harris's questioning of George Brown on BBC Television last week.......
Dr. No
Since Ian Fleming's James Bond is something of a national institution, and since I am In- curably an addict, 1 went with some curiosity to see the film of Dr. No, Bond's first......
Skeleton In The Cigarette Case
I am all for people being warned against the possible consequences of smoking too many cigarettes, but some of the propaganda at present being put out to this end seems to me......
Thalidomide When I Wrote My Paragraph On Thalidomide...
realised that it might arouse controversy. It did, and, just for the sake of the record, I should like to say (1) that I am not an adept of any theory of eugenics, and (2) that......
West Briton Brendan Behan Calls The Anglo-irish 'the Most...
rack-renting landlord class in Europe.' For Brian Inglis in his autobiography West Briton (Faber, 25s.) they are not quite that. More `golf- protestants' than......
Spectator's Notebook
Writ not one to wish politicians to be mealy- mouthed or to deny them the intoxication of rhetoric, but I do think that they should occa- sionally look over their shoulder to......
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