A Spectator's Notebook

I HEAR that once again rumours are circulating in Budapest that a secret trial of major political importance is now taking place in Hungary. The trial centres on the most......

True To Form 'a Student Of Politics' In The Sunday

Times caught up with the story a fortnight later. The 'Hampstead set' was becoming 'a term of derision for professional type Socialists who live within hailing distance of Mr.......

If This Is True, I Should Have Thought That The

case against him was exceptionally weak. For his soldier's oath was taken to serve the President and Government of Hungary. Certainly President Dobi could not have considered......

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`THE AFFAIRS of the ETU must be handled by the members themselves . . . nothing is more cer- tain to unite Communists and anti-Communists than outside interference . . , it will......

We Have Heard A Lot Lately Of The Resentment Felt

by trade union MPs against Mr. Gaitskell and the people who are presumed to advise him. Though there undoubtedly have been stirrings, these stories are due, I think, more to......

Westminster Commentary

CHRISTMAS is coming and the heads are getting fat. Will you,' I asked a Tory member whom I wanted to see, 'be in the House today?' Not,' he replied (he is a man of forthright,......

Next Week Owing To The Christmas Holidays Next Week's Issue

will go to press earlier than usual : with D. W. BROGAN on Henry Ford BERNARD LEVIN on My Books of the Year and The Spectator Christmas Game......