22 MARCH 1957, page 8

All-party Committees At The House Of Commons Tend To Be

rather dreadful things, oozing bon- homie at every pore. 'This thing,' they say, 'is above party politics' (what do they expect it to be—below?). But one must make an exception......

Westminster Commentary

Conclusion number two is that if President Eisenhower should slice his second at the sixteenth and let Mr. Macmillan have the full force of a number two iron in the seat of the......

At Lunch The Other Day I Heard Sir David Robertson

giving his reasons for his North of Scotland Development Bill, which was talked out in the Commons last Friday : a few hours later I was listening to some of the crofters of......

A Spectator's Notebook

▪ LESS THAN A WEEK after Mr. Butler's • impressive speech on prisons, the Government's Homicide Bill com- pleted its journey through Parlia- ment. Not even the Lord Chancel-......

As Sir Linton Andrews Points Out In A Letter To

the Editor this week Mr. Randolph Churchill has not yet reported to the Press Council the refusal of the Yorkshire Post to accept an advertisement for his book. All he has so......

This Kind Of Talk Infuriates The Crofters, And Such Of

their spokesmen as Sir Compton Macken- zie—who denounced the project in the Spectator a couple of years ago. It got by then, they claim, because the RAF assured them that the......

Long Before Miss Nancy Mitford Was Heard Of, The English

system of titles has been a stumbling- block to foreigners. In their early book, The Holy Family, Marx and Engels were able to jeer at some length at a German philosophical......