A Spectator's Notebook
E NTERTAINMENT duty is in the public eye for more reasons than one. There is first of all the question of the exemption of a number of plays, The Lady's Not for Burning and......
We Are Getting Very Near The End Of 1949, And
a number of people seem to be under the impression that the advent of 1950 means the beginning of the second half of the century. A daily paper, for example, announces the early......
The Visit Of The King And Queen To The Bible
House last week gives a kind of oblique appropriateness to the following, which I have lately filched. In Edinburgh, where booksellers' assistants are said to be as erudite as......
So Much Has Been Written This Week On The Impending
demise of the Strand Magazine that I can add little new comment of my own. The event shakes belief in the stability of any human institution, even though the great days of the......
The Observer's Handling Of Figures, To Which I Made Some
refer- ence last week, leaves me more confounded than ever. I pointed out that, in alleging that in the 30-month period January, 1947, to July, 1949, British payments out under......
Australia Turns Right T Iie Australian Verdict,...
New Zealand verdict. While many causes contributed to the result in either case, in both one main cause operated, a reaction against Socialism and all its consequences in the......
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