A Spectator's Notebook
O NE startling, perhaps I should say appalling, sentence in a despatch from Times correspondent at Shanghai one day this week has, so far as I have seen, provoked no comment......
Reaso'riably Devoid Though I Hope I Am Of Malice And
uncharitableness—envy I am not prepared completely to condemn or abjure—I rejoice unfeignedly to see that thanks to the activity of the Sussex police a number of vandals in that......
" She, Her Poodle, Is The Envy Of Bath." With
what inspiration is the assertion charged. The envy of Bath. Theme how admirable for a poem, or an essay, or a novel,' with the choice of eighteen centuries for epoch. Who was......
* * * * We Had Not Really Got Accustomed
yet to calling Ian Macpherson Lord Strathcarron, though he had held his peerage for over a year. Bad health had compelled him to drop out of the main stream of politics—he had......
So The Dockers Have Got Another Bob. I Describe The
rise thus advisedly, to put it in right relation with the famous " dockers' tanner " won after the historic strike of 1889, when the men's cause was championed by Cardinal......
The Bishop Of Gloucester Is A Noted Scholar And Theologian,
but his utterances on public affairs are not as a rule con- spicuously progressive. I am not surprised, therefore, to see him strenuously opposing the idea of a World Council of......
Universities And Employment
O NE of the most important aspects of contemporary university life in this country is discussed in a report published this week by the National Union of Students on the problem......