1 JULY 1955, page 20

One Of The Questions That The Press Will Soon Have

to ask itself concerns the future of criticism. Criticism of books, plays, films and so on has been based on the broad assumption that critics are disinterested; however......

I Was Curious To See Whether Crawfie Would Think Up

some ingenious excuse for her bloomer in Woman's Own the week before last, when she breezily described the cancelled Trooping the Colour and the postponed Ascot. But I should......

A Spectator's Notebook

MORE AND MORE I am driven to the conclusion that the Com- munist regimes regard Orwell's novels not as satires but as useful handbooks of suggestions. Last year, for the first......

Plantation Politics

BY CHARLES CURRAN T every general election since 1918 the Socialist -Party A has put forward a group of candidates labelled 'Labour and Co-operative.' Forty such candidates......

At The End Of The Test Match At Lord's The

English players applauded Statham as he left the field. 'The practice of the fielding side clapping one of their number is of fairly recent growth, I think, and it seems to me......

I Was Listening To 'housewives' Choice' Last Week When I

heard the man who sends those rather embarrassing messages that the housewives of this country seem to like addressing to each other over the air say that he was now going td......