21 FEBRUARY 1958, page 7

How That The Captain Is Back On The Bridge, The

crew will be glad lo know that he does not propose to abandon ship, or to hug the shore. There is only one course to be steered—that which has already been set —and it must not......

Still, Let It Be Said For The Times That It

struck a blow for the press on the occasion of Mr. Macmillan's return from his tour. Some busybody had arranged that the Prime Minister should have no fewer than three......

The Recent Row At The Public Inquiry Into The Proposed

atomic power station at Trawsfynydd, in the North Wales National Park, has brought a long-standing conflict into the open. National Park committees tend to be unpopular with the......

A Spectator's Notebook

CONSERVATIVE REACTIONS to Roch- dale have had a tedious predictabil- ity about them. The first response of the Tory press to the glum news was to urge that scapegoats should be......

Westminster Commentary

Tun other night I dreamed that the Chief Whip was dead. I awoke in a considerable state of alarm, not untinged with sorrow; for Mr. Heath, though I can hardly be ex- pected, in......

On What Basis, I Wonder, Does The Times Decide What

news stories must be ignored? Lord Altrincham's criticisms of the Court were not re- ferred to until his lordship's face was slapped— showing a curious sense of the Top People's......

I Have A Feeling That The British Medical Journal Was

right to criticise the BBC for its TV broad- casts from hospitals, but for the wrong reasons. The BBC is incredibly timid and naive on medical subjects; criticism of the......

Would Have Thought That The Reaction To Rochdale Of Any

reasonable Conservative would be : 'Right : we have taken a bad beating : no excuses : now let us find out what hit us and why.' But what happens? Lord Hailsham goes to Glas-......

So The Scandal Of The Press Intrusion After The Munich

air crash turns out to have been no scandal; simply a misunderstanding. I can sym- pathise with Mr. Milward of BEA; apparently he had been woken up by reporters the night before......