The Prolixity Of Members Of Parliament Is Going A Measurable
distance towards destroying the virtue of debates. The discussion on the National Health Service Bill on Monday was a particularly flagrant example of that. The subject was of......
A Spectator's Notebook
T HOUGH the health debate in the House of Commons on Monday produced no change in the general situation, the Government could still make one concession which would go far......
I Wish That Sir Stafford Cripps Could Have Been A
little more sympathetic to the suggestion that judges' salaries should be re- considered. It is almost incredible that they should never have been revised since they were last......
Eton, By Extending For Twelve Months Mr. Claud Elliott's...
mastership, gives itself that much longer to look for a successor. That, I imagine, is the chief reason for the extension, though no one would suggest that Mr. Elliott will be......
The Prime Minister Has Repeated The Refusal Of Previous...
ments to reopen the question of the Lane bequest. The problem is as interesting morally as almost any public issue. Sir Hugh Lane, the well-known art collector, an Irishman and......
The Doctors' Decision
T HE doctors are still voting, and the House of Commons has been discussing them. The debate on Monday, which might have achieved much, achieved nothing. Gulfs which wise......
Lord Samuel Suggests That "there Might Be A Vogue In
Ruskin as there was likely to be in Meredith and as there had been in Trollope." There might, of course, but I find parts of the sugges- tion surprising. In the case of Ruskin......
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