14 FEBRUARY 1947, page 5

The Scandal Of The Football Pools Remains A Scandal, In

spite of the refusal of the Government to interfere with it. It is not at all enough to say that the Government cannot interfere with the moral habits of the people. Why are......

Londoners Who Remember Reading In Their Pepys And...

fires of sea-coal can r,ealise rather poignantly today—with up to a hundred vital coal-ships s . .orrn-bound in the Tyne—how essential is their dependence on sea-transport. For......

Fortune, The Massive (in Volume, But Lively In Content)...

monthly, has been conducting an enquiry into American soldiers' reactions to conditions and habits in various European countries. The questions asked are interesting. I have......

A Spectator 's Notebook

T HE death of Ellen Wilkinson occurred just too late for mention in last week's Spectator. Now she has been buried, and the memorial service at St. Margaret's held. That is very......

The Annual Statistics Of Entrance Scholarships And...

are always interesting. This year, as usual, Eton and Manchester Grammar School are neck and neck near the head of the list—Eton being this time no higher than third with six......

No Coal-and Why

A MONG the first reactions to last Friday's announcement of the cutting of power supplies to most industries in South- East, Central' and North-West England was an unmistakable......

What Is To Be Said Of The New Minister Of

Education? This first, that there is no more popular, or deservedly popular, 'Irian in the House of Commons than George Tomlinson. He is the Lancashire trade unionist, or any......

Writing Away From My References Last Week I Was Guilty

of a minor inaccuracy in a paragraph regarding the Tranby Croft baccarat case. The date of the action brought by Sir William Gordon-Cumming......