28 DECEMBER 1956, page 6

In Spite Of My Admiration For Mr. Stephen Bonarjee's Work

as head of the BBC's topical talks unit, I can understand the irritation at Lime Grove and Muswell Hill over his appoint' ment as the new assistant head of the BBC's television......

A Spectator's Notebook

Hungarian Tragedy (Dennis Dobson, 5s.), by Peter Fryer, late correspondent of the Daily Worker in Budapest, is a book which all woolly liberals with a penchant for......

Many Newspapers Are Busy Nominating Their Men, Women,...

and sportsmen of the year; I would hesitate to add to their number.were it not for their strange neglect of the figure who is certainly the politician of the year—if I may call......

`eire' (my Irish Friends Never Tire Of Telling Me) Is

the Irish far Ireland, all Ireland : it should not properly be applied to the twenty-six-county unit which comprises the Republic. But hog' many people, I wonder, outside......

The Report That Lieutenant Moorhouse Had Been Killed By His

captors cut across the Christmas news bulletins like a blunt saw. We should, I suppose, be relieved that there have been so few ugly incidents of this kind; but I suspect that......

Welterweight Intelligence

IN me FOURTH round he turned the full force of his furious aggressio n on Waterman and floored him with a brilliant right, that can NO travelled no more than six inches, to the......

I Have Been Much Heartened During These Dark Days By

a story I have heard which shows that some old loyalties, which stand above party and even above country, still survive. At a recent meeting of a Northern Rotary Club a public......

It Is Instructive To Compare Mr. Fryer's Account With...

appearing behind the Iron Curtain. Bashkimi (the Albanian Communist newspaper) of December 9 has an 'eye- witness account' of the events in Budapest—an interesting example of......