24 APRIL 1959, page 6

A Spectator's Notebook

THE OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS Bill, after negotiating more, and crueller, fences than any at Aintree, is in danger of being disqualified (though not for boring) at the last moment.......

Six Months Ago, The German Newspapers Were Complaining...

coolness of London's welcome to their President. I hope they notice what a success the Mayor of Berlin is having, on television and at his press conferences. Having a pretty......

The Most Imaginative Suggestion In The Arts Council's...

Housing the Arts in Great Britain is that Inigo Jones's Banqueting House in Whitehall should revert from its present dingy use as a services museum to become a setting—as it was......

Westminster Commentary

`WHAT I would really like,' said the Minister of Housing and Local Government in the Divi- sion Lobby, 'is a department where one could think.' A scep- tic might wonder exactly......