25 FEBRUARY 1955, page 7

The Quarrel Between The Bbc And The British Transport...

about the Special Inquiry television programme which was to have dealt with the railways has descended to the level where the representatives of both sides shout 'Yes, you did'......

A Spectator's Notebook

THERE is no doubt of the foolishness of the rule which the In the News panel complained of last Friday. This rule prohibits discussion on wireless or television of any subject......

A Friend Who Hunts With A Pack Of Stag-hounds In

the West Country reports an unusual incident which happened the other day. One farmer in the district has no use for the hunt and refuses to allow it on his land. It is an old......

Attlee Recently Proposed That Chiang Kai-shek Should Be...

a plebiscite held in Formosa to decide who was going to rule it. It is thought probable that this will become the official policy of the Labour Party. This seems to me admirable......

Political Commentary

THOSE (and they are many) who saw in the Queen's Speech last November indications of an early—by which they meant a February or March—general election can have little hope now......

The Hundredth Anniversary Of The Death Of Gdrard De Nerval

passed without much in the way of celebration here. Oblivion has swallowed so many of the eminent ministers, officials, economists, and other experts who peopled the nineteenth......