15 JULY 1955, page 7

There Are Many Absurdities At The Soho Fair, In Keeping

with the delightful incongruity of the whole project. The cosmo- politan committee has modelled it on a French fair, but no kermesse. however heroic, ever had such a crazy......

A Spectator's Notebook

ONE OF THE MOST disgusting aspects of the Mrs. Ellis contro- versy has been the claptrap about sex equality. 'It is time,' writes Candidus, 'that feminists learned that sex......

Press Intelligence

By Randolph S. Churchill GLORIA GRAHAME has never eloped with an eastern prince, dallied with a maharajah, or brawled with a crooner. Unlike some of the celebrated ex-maidens of......

Political Commentary

BY HENRY FAIRLIE W HEN Sir Winston Churchill resigned, the Spectator commented : 'The Conservative Party exists again— for the first time for 15 years.' During the past week it......

I Am Pleased That The London County Council Has Voted

to open the Battersea Fun Fair on Sundays. Whether or not there should be amusements of any kind on a Sunday is arguable, but since cinemas in London and fun fairs in other......