18 FEBRUARY 1955, page 7

Ireland Is Even Stranger Than I Thought. A Deputation From

the Licensed Grocers' and Vintners' Association saw the Minister for Justice in Dublin last week and put forward certain de- mands. These included the abolition of (I quote from......

One Of The Most Curious News Items Of The Week

concerned the quarrel between the BBC and the British Transport Com- mission over the television programme in the Special Inquiry series which was to have dealt with the......

A Spectator's Notebook

MISS EL UNE 311A ION'S television programme on behalf of the Labour Party last week was very well received by the press and no doubt it was a good programme. Miss Burton......

On The Facts So Far Revealed, There Seems To Be

something very odd about the case of Colonel Scotland. Last July the colonel's agents submitted to the War Office for clearance before publi- cation the MS of a book called The......

Political Commentary

THE SIGNIFICANT FACT about Mr. Bevan's motion calling for immediate high-level talks with the Soviet Union is not that he has succeeded in winning for it the support of more......