19 JUNE 1959, page 7

I Know It Can Be Argued That The Journalists Con-

cerned show no signs of having been 'bought' by the Establishment. Most of them, in fact, are on the Left politically. But by accepting honours they lend the list a spurious air......

A Spectator's Notebook

LITTLE CAN PROFITABLY be added to what the Spectator said last month on the sub- ject of the printing dispute. We are not a party to it, except in the sense that we have a......

I Was Wrong, I Find, In My Contention That Ad-

vertisers were supposed to have nothing to do with 'shoppers' guides' when the TV Bill was first being discussed; it has been pointed out to me that provision was made in the......

The Sunday Times Patted Itself On The Back Last Week

for having refrained from comment on. Ghana's expulsion of its correspondent, Mr. Russell Howe, as the case was before the Com- monwealth Press Union : 'The Union has now issued......

The Birthday Honours List Ran True To Recent Depressing...

Some faithful party supporters were rewarded for conspicuous mediocrity. A famous actor became a knight, and a famous foot- baller was awarded a CBE; association football has......

The Injustice In The Mrs. Christos Case Was Not To

her, but to her family. A correspondent in The Times a few days ago aired the view I have long held, that the two forms of punishment now recognised by the law, fines and......

Our Political Correspondent Writes : I Hap- Pened To Be

down at the Bromley fete, working as an attendant on the coconut shy, when I heard' the PM say, taking Haley by the arm, 'Enough is enough.' Curious to overhear the rest of the......

How Do Some People Get Away With It? Recently A

motorist (I quote Lord Merthyr, speaking in a debate in the Lords) 'was convicted of careless driving which had resulted in a collision. It was his sixteenth motoring......