Dr. Macqueen Outside The Field Of His Work In Medical

health very few people a short time ago would have heard of Dr. MacQueen. Now everyone knows his name. In a month or two probably it will be forgotten. Before that happens I for......

The Right Sort Of Change?-3

REVOLUTION IN DEFENCE By ANGUS MAUDE, MP S 0 great have the changes in the defence situation been that the present is a suitable time for looking ahead and asking some specula-......

Writing In Public

This Week did a splendid piece on a modern attitude to the Welfare State, based on Enoch Powell's article in the Spectator. In my prejudiced view, Powell ran rings round......

Spectator's Notebook

A story of a lost scoop is attached to this. Shortly after her marriage a reporter was inter- viewing her. 'Tell me,' he said, 'what did you do before your marriage to Commander......

Tailpiece

Mr. Frank Gillard writes to the Spectator to declare 'There is no plan for any fundamental change in the character of the Light Pro- gramme.. . . But its broadcasting day, now......

Were You Embarrassed?

Occasionally one reads a strangely insensitive comment in the British press on the subject of modern totalitarianism. Such was last Sunday's editorial comment in the Observer on......

Capital Punishment Let Me Make It Clear That I Do

not believe that capital punishment is a deterrent, and that I would be glad to see it go. Yet I want to question the universal assumption that, which- ever party wins the......