21 OCTOBER 1955, page 7

Perhaps The Daily Express Is Cross Because It Doesn't Have

as finger in the commercial television pie. This is the only reason that I can imagine behind its pompous attitude towards those people who voted against Commercial TV but now......

It Seems To Me That People Who Carry Democratic Principles

into the arts do neither democracy nor the arts any great service. The latest example was the attack by the organist and choirmaster of Derby Cathedral on the Arts Council, for......

Three Years Ago King George's Jubilee Trust Undertook To...

a study of the influences which affect young people in Britain. This was a question of co-ordinating work that was already being done rather than of initiating fresh lines of......

Footnote From Margate : A Solitary Ex-mp (suspected Of...

was walking head down past a group seated at a table. One member of the group, a trade unionist famous for his sharp wit and determined to live up to it, said, as the lone wolf......

Political Commentary

BY HENRY FAIRLIE p ARLIAMENT reassembles next week, and Mr. Alfred Robens (whom I have heard described as the Khrushchev of the Labour Party) has joined Mr. Trevor Evans (who is......

My Friend Told Me That At One Big Sale At

Paultons, in Hamp- shire, where the private 'knock' took place in a cricket pavilion, about 150 dealers were present; and whereas the total auction figures were given as......

A Spectator's Notebook

AS A RESULT of my curiosity being aroused by correspondence in the Sunday Times about the strange practices of antique dealers at auction sales, I asked a dealer friend of mine......