25 JANUARY 1957, page 7

This Is A Great Country And Do Not Let' Us

be ashamed to say so. It is not just material resources that make a nation great. It is character and leadership. There are certainly some problems ahead of us. And then there......

Westminster Commentary

Arriving, the greater and the lesser seemed determined to play to the last the parts appointed to them by the cartoonists and the seekers of political analogies. Mr. Butler,......

'today, For The Fourth Day Of The Action, Miss Dors

wore a white coolie hat and a loose-fitting champagne, heavy grosgrain coat over a mink trimmed dress with three-quarter length sleeves: (The Times Law Report, January 18.) The......

The Commons Committee Of Privileges, However, Instead Of...

the editor of the Sunday Express to make it clear the article was not intended to reflect on Parliament, urged that he should be severely reprimanded; and as a result, other MPs......

Passengers On London Buses May Have Noticed Lately That Many

conductors are saying, 'Hold tightly, please.' The offenders are all among the new recruits, and chiefly the young women. No older man would misuse his tongue on that unnatural......

A Journalist Is Wise Never To Use Irony Unless He

lays it on thick. Commenting on the fuel shortage, the London Teacher remarked that many of the profession 'will no doubt be forced to use public transport,' and went on, to......

A Spectator's Notebook

ritil MOST SENSIBLE suggestion made in vOmc t,*.; Tuesday's 'privilege' debate in the Commons came from Lord Hinching- brooke, who said that publication of 1 the details of MPs'......

Rr Seems To Me That One Of The Most Notable

of the recent setbacks to Soviet policy has been Chinese intervention, not only in the Middle East, but in Russia's European protectorates as well. This is a far cry from the......

I Rave Been Reading Paul Johnson's Suez War (macgibbon And

Kee, 10s. 6d.) and rejoicing that political pamphleteering has been given a fillip by the events of the last six months. Mr. Johnson is quick off the mark in polemic and was......