A Spectator's Notebook

I OFTEN wonder what politicians have in mind when they refer, as many of them did in this week's debate on agriculture, to "the farming community." Twenty years ago it would......

Over The Hedge

In the past he wag something of a recluse, and saw—unless he happened to hunt—little of what was going on on the land around his holding. Today it is easy, and, especially among......

Readjustment

They got married, settled into a small house in the Shires and ordered, among other necessities of life, The Times. It had taken them just over three months to discover that......

Points Of Honour

I doubt whether a letter from a practising homosexual (" name and address supplied ") which was published last week by one of our contemporaries will gain much sympathy for his......

The End Of ,a Dream

I N the House of Commons on Thursday, November 5th, Mr. Hector McNeil said that his party "pleads once more , that a meeting should be sought" between the Heads of State of......

A Good Cry

It seems to me typical of Dr. Moussadek that the newspapers in this country and America doggedly insist on spelling his name in at least four different ways. "He always makes......

Slaying For The Side

I do not know to what extent local patriotism would respond to the incentive, but I should have thought it would be worth the Forestry Commission's while to put their cam- paign......