13 AUGUST 1965, page 9

Spectator's Notebook

OFFER an interesting footnote to the corre- I spondence now going on in The Times about the Parliamentary Correspondent's reports of de- bates in the House of Commons. It is a......

John Bull's First Job

A Season in the Country By PETER VA'NSITTART I HAD begun a novel which, could it but get finished, seemed likely to be the best book ever writ- ten. It was going well: I had......

For Me, Easily The Most Satisfying Revelation Of The Week

was that there really is a Joan Hunter Dunn. John Betjeman's enchanting 'Subaltern's Love Song' has been part of my repertoire of songs in the bath for some years. And there......

The Future Of Parliamentary Privilege

By LAIN MACLEOD P ERHAPS the only lasting advantage that can be gleaned from the flurry of privilege cases in the last two sessions of Parliament is that they have provided an......