17 JANUARY 1964, page 3

The Spectator

No. 7073 Established 1828 FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1964......

— Portrait Of The Week— Yet Again, At The First Whiff

of wintry weather, British Railways wilted. Trains were cancelled, timetables abandoned, and hints were given that services might be really disrupted should it actually snow.......

National Or Nationalised?

A POLICE system organised for the nine- teenth century, and a prison system similarly irrelevant to the present age: no wonder crime goes on rising. In the debate in the Commons......