29 MAY 1959, page 7

Lord Shawcross And Others Are Busy, I Hear, In The

preparation of a draft Bill to reform contempt of court procedure, on the lines proposed recently by the British section of the Iiiternational Com- mission of Jurists. That......

There Are—as Correspondents Have Been Telling...

of Arts degree: Oxbridge is not the only culprit. But I still do not like a system which gives what is widely thought to be a higher degree for money, not for merit. True, at......

Westminster Commentary

On Being a Member of Parliament By DAVID PRICE, MP (T APER is on holiday.) Tuts week Parliament has not been sitting. The Whitsun recess runs until June 2. I suppose that the......

Pnalinment Had Not Been In Recess There Should Have Been

some interesting comment on Lord 1 ‘'Ialvern's latest utterance. Addressing the League ( If Student Parliamentarians in Bulawayo, he otivised them to ignore views expressed at......

A Public . Relations Firm Has Sent Me A Document Setting

out the reasons why ice-cream manufac- turers, though they would prefer to use nothing but British dairly products, find themselves com- pelled to use substitutes. Two factors,......

Some People, According To The Retiring President Of The...

Federation, look upon mergers in the publishing trade with apprehension; but he feels they will ultimately be to the newsagents' good. 'When publishers decide to stop old num-......

It May Sound Illogical, Then, For Me To Defend The

soup manufacturers for using the term 'mush- room' when they mean other varieties of edible fungi; I see that Major Stewart in our cor- respondence columns calls this 'coarsely......

A Spectator's Notebook

IT IS A WRY JOKE Of Fate to bring a crisis in Uganda hard on the heels of the beginning of the dourly intractable emergency in Central Africa. None of the issues involved are......