When A Few Years Ago Sir David Eccles Made A
tasteless and patronising reference to the Queen he was promptly set upon by Randolph Churchill. Why, I wonder, has Mr. Churchill been silent during the last few weeks? I can......
My First Experience Of Travel Underground Was On What Is
now the Northern Line. At that tender age, a line which could boast stations with names such as Burnt Oak, Angel and Nightingale Lane was invested with great romance; and......
What With Mr. Nehru Making Strikes Illegal And Dr. Nkrumah
deporting political opponents and journalists, and proceedings against the corre- spondent of the Daily Telegraph for contempt of court, civil liberties seem to have been taking......
What The Episode Does Suggest Is That The Bbc Is
wholly unfitted, by reason of its constitution and tradition, for handling 'features' of this nature. The BBC's ludicrous apology was one symptom of this weakness : the way that......
Westminster Commentary
So it is, analogously enough, with. Parliament. When the geological strata of the present Parlia- mentary system were laid down (and here, of course, I am not simply referring......
A Spectator's Notebook
NOW THAT many national news- papers have a stake in commercial television, the BBC is likely to come in for some unfair criticism. But though it may be unedifying to see......
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