13 DECEMBER 1957, page 7

Mr. John Gordon's Familiar Brand Of Hysteria Was, I Felt,

overdone last Sunday. Mr. P. G. Wodehouse, it appears, had made a witty remark about the Daily Express, and wit being anathema to Mr. Gordon, he took exception to it. So he......

On Saturday Morning, -for Example, The Local Press...

the UN debate on Cyprus might begin that day. At once the bells were rung, and the schoolchildren flocked to their churches. They were met by Turkish auxiliaries; and as the......

Westminster Commentary

SOME people are born unlucky. Among them—high among them —I would place the man who wrote last Friday in Liberal News (I have just noticed that this jour- nal calls itself 'The......

The Divorce Controversy May Or May Not Be Illuminated By

an item in the excellent exhibition of books and manuscripts from the Old Royal Library got up for the bicentenary of the gift of the collection to the British Museum by George......

I See That Taper Discusses The Prime Minister's Broadcast At

length. What surprised me about it was not the banality of phrase but what he was trying to say. Whoever put it into Mr. Macmillan's head that it was the Prime Minister's job to......

A Spectator's Notebook

I HAVE EVERY SYMPATHY With what the new Governor of Cyprus is try- ing to achieve out there; but is he going the right way about it? In theory a tour through the island, to show......