Peculiar Timing
There has been a great deal of heated argu- ment and discussion among ministers, members and journalists on the real reasons behind the Prime Minister's Paris trip. It is no......
Death And Life Members
What look very like the death-throes of the Oxford Union have been affording many of us onlookers some sharp pleasure. Only students of excessive coarseness or extreme left-wing......
And English Intruding
This reminded me of an occasion several years ago when my wife came to the head of the stairs to see a stranger standing in the hall below. 'Who are you?' she asked. 'What are......
Money In Boats
I found it a trifle disturbing to read that Mr Heath regards his £22,000 toy 'Morning Cloud in' as` 'a bloody good investment'. Knovving plenty of people with boats, and h......
Transfer Subsidies
Lord Eccles's proposals for charging entrance fees for our national museums strike me as being sensible: so I suppose there will be a great hullabaloo from the idiots about......
The Spectator's Notebook
Some Tory members of parliament at lunch here recently brought up the subject of the tariff on imported cars. It was a week or two before Mr Davies's surely calculated in-......
Black Portering-
A few days ago. at Liverpool Street station I saw a black porter sweeping the platform. His sweeping was impeded by one of those railway carts which are used to trundle parcels......
And Irish Telephoning
And I don't suppose he'd have approved of an exchange that actually did take place at Liverpool Street station. As usual, hardly any telephones were working: only a couple in......
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