22 AUGUST 1958, page 6

Have We Really, Then, Reached The Situation Where The Word

of an 'official,' which being inter- preted means 'a civil servant,' is accepted in evi- dence, while the evidence of university professors or engineers, not being 'official,'......

A Spectator's Notebook

WHO WILL CONTROL Our controllers? I had long regarded the Committee of Public Accounts with respectful awe, admiring the way its criticisms of public overspending cut a swathe......

Rr Is Odd To Think That As Recently As Five

years ago, the British Trade Union movement was looked up to with respectful admiration by all classes of the community, and all varieties of political opinion. Now, the TUC is......

'in These More Enlightened Days,' Miles Howard Wrote A Few

weeks ago, 'most doctors agree that to take a young child away from its parents and put it in a strange place among strange people for any length of time is a serious matter';......

As Long Ago As June 20 The Spectator Predicted (if

memory serves, exclusively) that Bulganin had been sent to a minor job in the Caucasus: and now this story has been confirmed officially—not, of, course, that this means much in......

Westminster Commentary

As I was saying when I was inter- rupted, things are coming to a pretty pass. The Labour Party is unable to formulate a coherent policy that has any chance of commending itself......