18 APRIL 1958, page 6

Westminster Commentary

CRITICISING Mr. Heathcoat Amory has for some years now been rather like smoking , in church; even a drunken atheist would con- sider it disgraceful behaviour. There are signs—as......

A Spectator's Notebook

ROBERT STEPHEN RINTOUL, who died a hundred years ago this week, was the founder of the Spectator. Its obituary notice of him said that 'even those subscribers who were most......

The Liberal Decision Not To Join An Anti-socialist Front Is

sensible. The party's present success is due to discontent with the other two parties, not to its own virtues, and its continuance depends upon it remaining prudishly aloof from......

Many Readers Of The Times Must Have Been Astonished To

read (though not, of course, in The Times) that Hugh Cudlipp had called it the 'Judas of journalism.' He was referring not to its appeasement line over Czechoslovakia in 1938......

In Our Correspondence Columns Mr. Randolph Churchill...

his plan for an anti- Socialist front owed nothing to that of Mr. Martell, whose pamphlet he had not read. I am sorry. The plans were so similar I was deceived into thinking......