A Spectator's Notebook
W EST HAM has gone as everyone expected it would, and the defeated Conservative candidate is too modest when he declares that it was purely his personal shortcomings that were......
The Vanities Of Patriotism
IT cannot be said of most of our democratic leaders today, as it was said of Pericles, the greatest of Athenian democrats, that they " flatter the vanity " of the people of this......
Documents Produced As A Result Of Group . Discussions Are
apt to be chiselled off and pared down till they get to be very colourless affairs. That certainly is not a characteristic of the letter (which appears on a later page of this......
There Is Something Attractively Picturesque Abmit The...
the Dean of Canterbury," to institute pilgrimages to cathedrals for the benefit of the unemployed, and, of course, the first commentators inevitably recalled, as I studiously......
The Croydon Murder Appeal Inspires Rather Searching...
whole question of capital punishment. Leave aside for the moment the question of whether it should or should not be inflicted in a case of open and palpable murder in which the......
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