20 MAY 1966, page 9

Spectator's Notebook

'THE general impression we are being given of I the seamen's strike and the issues involved goes. I suppose, something like this: The seamen are being a little naughty in asking......

Faites Vos Jens

Once again, the annual revelation by the Churches Council on Gambling of yet another increase in the nation's betting activities has led to the usual wail from the puritans of......

Oxford Accent

It is sad to see the Franks Commission joining the fashionable chorus and demanding that Oxford should indulge in a rapid expansion in the applied sciences and technology, for......

Out Of School The Present Government's Foreign...

so far as it has one at all—is so de- pressingly sterile that I can't forbear to raise a cheer at the remarks made out of school by Lord Chalfont to the Anglo-American Press......

Duckti And Drakes One Of The Unexpected Pleasures Of Living

near Hyde Park is that every so often, usually in the early ,morning. one or more mallards (I suppose from the Serpentine) swoop down on to our lawn. Quite why they do this I'm......

Defence

No Room for Dissent? By D. C. WATT O N the south side of Whitehall stands Inigo Jones's magnificent banqueting hall. Until 1962, its entrance was guarded outside by a small......

Divided They Stand I'm Fascinated By Stanley Uys's Report On

page 622 that one of the possible solutions for Rhodesia now being floated by Dr Verwoerd is partition. Ever since the crisis burst I've been waiting for this......

Liberalism

What is a liberal? We have today, in Mr Roy Jenkins, an ostensibly liberal Home Secrei.ary, and a dozen Liberal Members of Parliament. One of them, the young and personable......