25 MAY 1956, page 7

Political Commentary

BY HENRY FAIRLIE LAS. the Establishment is in danger of becciming a pejorative instead of an analytical concept. It is being used by all sorts and conditions of people, usually......

A Friend Of Mine Recently Went Into An Electrician's To

buy a bayonet plug so that he could connect his electric razor with the light socket. He found, however, that with the bayonet plug he was compelled to buy an ordinary two-prong......

John Buchan, Whose Writings Are Discussed On Another Page...

his taste for London life between coming down from Oxford and being whisked away by Lord Milner into the Kindergarten. This was the period, at the turn of the century, of his......

A Spectator's Notebook

I Q. JOHN SPARROW has been putting on a most unusual Pe rformance in the Listener. In Support of his scarcely original and often refuted thesis that the abolitionist case is......

4 Ad Expected A Circus Like Any Other. 'moscow State Circus'

;41(3unded rather grander, to be sure, but what's in a name? It as in no fever of anticipation that I settled my party in their t ' h e ats and sought ice-cream for the younger......