24 JULY 1959, page 5

I Would Like To Thank The Many Readers Who Have

written to say how much they approve of the looks of the present 'emergency' Spectator. Some of them have urged that we should stay this way: but the difficulties, technical and......

1 Have Been Watching With Interest The Controversy In The

Times correspondence columns about the discomfort suffered by tourist class passengers in air liners— especially tall ones, who have no room for their elbows or their feet. Lord......

Mr. Gerald Gardiner Argues That It Would Be More Sensible

if, instead of every- one concentrating the hue and cry after murderers, we tried to reduce the number of murders by limiting the availability of firearms. Agreed: the law......

A Spectator's Notebook

THE 1958 parliamentary re- turns for offences relating to motor vehicles is as de- pressing a document as I have seen for a long time, with its revelation that the number of......

Westminster Commentary

In one sense, this is fortunate. If we do not hang out banners extolling the virtues of our Members of Parliament, it should be remembered that neither do we hang out the......

It As Unworthy Of The Minister Of Health To Ease

himself lazily out of answering an awkward but pertinent question by a grimy old parliamentary expedient. The question was on why doctors who have been fined for negligence in......