24 JANUARY 1958, page 7

Lord Moran Put His Foot In It Good And Proper

last week when he contrasted general practitioners unfavourably with specialists by asking how people who fell off the ladder could be considered the same as people who got to......

A Spectator's Notebook

I TRUST Sir Hugh Foot's return to Cyprus is a good omen: that he has gone back because he knows the Government is going to take action rather than that he has been sent back......

Peter Whitehead Spent Ten Years In Mental In- Stitutions...

it was discovered that he had been illegally certified and wrongfully detained. His experiences in Rampton and other institu- tions have now been published in Sentenced Without......

I Know Absolutely Nothing About 'monorail' And I May Be

allowing myself to be taken in by the sight of those delightful, streamlined, elegant- looking prototypes ones sees from time to time on films; but surely, in common sense, they......

And Here, I Think, The Book Is At Its Most

effec- tive; in showing how a perfectly sane and in- telligent young man can be trapped. If he behaves himself, and makes no trouble, he may be released in ten years' time—if he......

My Paragraph Last Week On The News Chronicle's Gallup Poll

has drawn a reply from its director in which it emerges that the question to which I objected was never asked in that form at all. I said that to divide the answers to the......

Mr. R. A. Butler's Television Interview Was Dis-...

because the terms on which the interview was arranged prevented Mr. Robin Day—who normally does not allow his subjects to escape so easily—from following up prepared with......

Among The Things I Have Seen Recently Which (as Mr.

Punch used to say) might have been better expressed wag this report in the Daily Telegraph of a recent political meeting : Mr. Birch's speech was punctuated • with rounds of......

Bow The Archbishop Of Canterbury Must Envy People Like The

Pope, or the Lord Chief Justice, or Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, who can say almost any- thing and get away with it. If he had made the speech the Pope made on birth control this week,......