24 MAY 1924, page 2

As Our Readers Know, We Are All For Insurance, And

we dream of that ideal scheme which will insure every worker against all the changes and chances of life. Un- employment will be only a single incident against which protection......

The Second Reading Of The Unemployed Insurance Bill,...

Mr. Shaw in the House of Commons on Tuesday, was carried without a division. It was evident from the debate on this highly controversial measure that most Members desired to......

• This Is A New Reading Of English History, Under

which Magna Charta and the Bill of Rights become simply the public expression of the Englishman's dislike of discom- fort and inconvenience—not by any means an unattrac- tive......

The Political World Was Startled By The Publication In The

People of last Sunday of an interview with Mr. Baldwin, which incidentally contained a series of strong, not to say bald, personal strictures upon Lord Beaver- brook, Lord......

Among The Statements Attributed To Mr. Baldwin Which...

surprise were the following : that the Trust Press was breaking up—" the Daily Mail is dead ; it has no soul " ; that Lord Northcliffe, with all his faults, was a great......

The Government's Housing Scheme Will Probably Be...

Bill next week. The more it is examined the more criticism it provokes. As we recorded last week, the £6 subsidy for twenty years is to be raised to £9 for forty years, and the......

M. Herriot, The Most Likely Successor To The French...

made a most interesting statement to M. Jules Sauerwein (who, our readers will recall, contributed so able a defence of M. Poincare to the Spectator of March -22nd), which was......

Although The Building Trade Gets Its Fifteen Years Of...

we cannot see that there is anything to prevent the local authorities from withdrawing whenever they please. Some of the details of the scheme are extremely confused. It is......