28 MARCH 1958, page 7

A Spectator's Notebook By The Time You Read This, Either

the Government will have suffered one of the most striking defeats in by-election history or the public- opinion pollsters will be hunting for their passports, while......

Westminster Commentary

Indeed it is not, and when it transpired that the news was merely a report in the Stuttgarter Nachrichten of a dreamed-up tale in the Daily Herald my cup of grief was full. Or......

A Ssuming That The Trend Observed By The Poll- St Ers Is

reflected in the actual voting figures, I fancy that the Opposition is going to be even More perturbed by the result than the Govern- tn ent. Conservatives of my acquaintance......

Southern Rhodesia Happened To Be The First Country I Visited

which had a colour bar; and 1 can remember the incredulity with which our party received the warning that, whatever other customs or laws we might feel like breaking, there was......

I See Run Manchester Guardian Has Been Referring To Meter

television as `Pay-As-You-View'—a sad come-down for what was originally a fine project ! Meter television—by which you put a shilling in the slot and get an hour's viewing—is......

A Friend Just Back From The West Indies Tells Me

that the chief feature of the election campaign, wherever he went, was the complete absence of any interest in the new Federation. An uneasy alliance between Mr. Norman Manley......

The Death Of Mike Todd, Perhaps The Last Of The

old-style megalomaniacs, could hardly have occurred, even from natural causes, without a good deal of publicity. As it is, the thousands of words that have been written about......