14 AUGUST 1959, page 7

Westminster Commentary

IT is generally supposed—and I have no good reason to dissent from the general opinion—that the election is to be held in Octo- ber. There is, as a matter of fact, nothing to......

My Remarks About The Colour Of The English Fiver Have

brought a letter from a Scot who spent a couple of days in England last month; and twice in that short period was offered £4-odd as change of a Scottish £1 note. 'We hard-headed......

Having Found Myself In A Part Of The Country Recently

where the only sound was the occasional chuff of the local flyer (curious how indigenously rural the sound of a railway steam engine has become: I cannot imagine feeling the......

Most Of The Fuss Over The Legitimacy Bill Centred On

the case of a man and woman who, having lived together for years and produced children, split up and need judicial action such as is offered to more conventionally-aligned......

Knowing Nothing About The Craft Of Film-making, I Am...

about intervening in the contest of experts between the Boulting Brothers and Nicholas Davenport; but a couple of questions suggest themselves which I have yet to see answered.......

A Spectator's Notebook

WHEN THE PRINTING dispute began certain weeklies, includ- ing the Economist and the New Statesman, were sent ( abroad to be printed. They were promptly informed that so long as......

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t'AN RECOMMEND the current issue of Africa lit h, a quarterly published in Capetown, to kale wanting to deepen his knowledge of the tral African crisis. Kenneth Kaunda (now in......