16 AUGUST 1957, page 6

The Letter In The Spectator's Correspondence Columns...

Leonard Schapiro, lec- turer in Soviet studies at the London School of Economics, should be of particular interest for anyone who has been following the controversy over the......

Westminster Commentary

THE leader-writers and the political commentators (the other political commentators, that is) spent last week what seemed to me an un- necessarily large amount of their space......

A Spectator's Notebook

THE Committee of Public Accounts has criticised the 'abortive expen- diture' of some £40,000,000 on the development of the Swift aircraft, originally designed as a fighter and......

In The Spectator Eighteen Months Ago, Dr. Donald Mci....

MP, ridiculed the State- owned pubs in his constituency, Carlisle; they were an example, he thought, of what Professor Toynbee had in mind when he referred to 'civilisations......