A Spectator's Notebook
L AST Sunday night's air-raid on London may have its value as a reminder of future possibilities. Long immunity may very easily breed a certain laxity in precautions. Government......
In Confirmation Of The Contention That " The Vicious Spiral'
is not a question of rising wages only but of rising salaries. someone sends me a list of proposed increases in the remunera• tion of various officials of Liverpool Corporation.......
I Have Had Put To Me A Rather Pertinent Question,
which unfortunately I cannot answer without more research than I have time for—how many Presidents of the Board of Educc. tion have there been since the Board was created, and......
A Letter In The Spectator Has Borne Satisfactory Fruit. Some
six weeks ago Mr. P. F. Wiener, who is German master at Rugby, wrote to express astonishment that the Oxford and Cambridge Joint Examination Board should have prescribed for "......
The Importance Of Such Text-books In The Hands Of School-
boys (and equally of their sisters) is considerable, and it is as necessary to get the right books included in school curricula as the wrong ones excluded. It is very......
The Rising Tide Of Casualties On The Roads, Coupled With
rho reputation which the army has rightly or wrongly gained fc dangerous driving, draws attention to an anomaly that wt come as a surprise to most people. Last week a......
Production For Total War
R. CHURCHILL did well to provide a third day for the debate on production in the House of Coco- ons. The House has not the least reason to regret the rank speeches made in the......
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