28 JANUARY 1955, page 6

Political Commentary

LORD SALISBURY'S mysterious statement this week about the Government's intention to `go ahead' with the task of reform- ing the House of Lords contained all the subtlety and......

St. James's Theatre

The indefatigable Mr. Tom O'Brien urges that the St. James's Theatre should be preserved 'from the clutches of the vulgar' as a memorial to the late Queen Mary; the trade......

Taking Stock

Mr. James Henderson Stewart, Under-Secretary for Scotland, has criticised the Scots farmers who failed to make provision for the recent storm. They should, he considers, 'take......

A Spectator's Notebook

CROSS BENCHER, the political columnist of the Sunday Express who is often thought—wrongly, I hope—to reflect the ideas of Lord Beaverbrook, is worried about the use of......