28 AUGUST 1959, page 6

So At Last It Is Simply The Guardian. I Can

sympathise with my colleague Cyril Ray, a former inmate, when he complains that he has always referred to himself as a product of 'the MG' : will he now, to make himself......

Westminster Commentary

Or all the intellectual discus- sions ever captured in cold print, my favourite is that in the opening chapter of The Longest Journey. The students are sitting round in Mr.......

A It Is G

A Spectator's Notebook I SUSPECT THAT the difference between my point of view on the Beaverbrook influence and Lord Boothby's, expressed in ( our correspondence columns, is one......

A Better Example Of A Frontal Attack On The Establishment

is given by Henry Fairlie in this month's Encounter in an article on the BBC. Mr. Fairlie reasonably complains that the pure milk of his (and, earlier, A. J. P. Taylor's)......

I Thought The Observer Was Unnecessarily Unkii On Sunday...

Peter Hope, the Foreign Ott'. spokesman. In so far as it is true that the FO 'the haughtiest of all departments,' which 'so' ceeds both in making cunning use of the pro and in......

To The Conservattve Pa.t Ry Goes Credit, If That The Word,

for the neatest trick of the week : th el have not only stolen the Labour Party's 'plan 1 , ‘ leisure,' almost in its entirety, but actually 11 131/ .: aged to beat Transport......