Spectator's Notebook
When we reached Harrogate we plunged at °nee into an immensely serious and enjoyable conference. The speakers included a bishop and a dean, as well as more orthodox lay......
Tailpiece
Civic pride is a splendid thing, and their magistrates' verdict on Cain's Book must bring some balm to the burghers of Sheffield. It may have been said of them that their police......
A Moderating Growth
It is the oddity With every other commodity. It takes its turn and turn about And first is in and then is out— Which Chancellors call—to cover both A moderating rate of growth.......
Crime And Punishment
Has any Royal Commission, I wonder, ever been given a more difficult task than that which, it is announced, is to inquire into crime and punishment? `To re-examine the concepts......
Desert Of Days
At first sight, Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, Leader of the House of Commons, will be in a position over these next three months that makes him the envy of all his predecessors. He will......
Farm Subsidies Out Of Control
• By JACK DONALDSON L sT May Mr. Christopher Soames announced that, with a view to stabilising the food market, he intended to negotiate restrictive agreements with overseas......
Something For Everyone The Great Wave Of Shakespeariana...
upon us. I bow to the Bard with the rest, but I hope this quatercentenary deluge is not about to make him seem the great bore which innumerable reluctantly-heeded English......
Another Lighthouse?
Several references to this new Royal Com- mission, I see, describe it as the first full study of our penal system since the Gladstone com- mittee reported in 1895. Mr. Henry......
I ' Ll _ T Heriy, We Have Your Message' Even In This Age Of
credulity, I don't think there has been a bigger hoax than the case of the alleged Hiroshima pilot, Major Eatherly. Cele- brated in a poem by Mr. John Wain, by liberal crusaders......
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