30 SEPTEMBER 1955, page 7

When, During The Election Campaign Earlier This Year, Mr....

Bevan referred to the Conservatives as `Gadarene swine,' he was indignantly reproved by many Conservatives and Conservative newspapers. I could never understand why, since......

Shay That Again? Pharos

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A Spectator's Notebook

THE NEWS that Mr. Donald Tyerman is to succeed Mr. Geoffrey Crowther as editor of The Economist is doubly interesting. The change involves two of the most remarkable figures in......

A Large And Uneasy Crowd Watched The Knife Battle In

Soho between 'Jack Spot' and Albert Dimes; both men were severely wounded, spattering the pavements over which they struggled with blood. Yet they have both been acquitted,......

Political Commentary

BY HENRY FAIRLIE Last week, Sir Anthony Eden appointed a new personal adviser on public relations. It is hard to see why he needs one at all. Sir Anthony is his own best public......

I Have Been Watching Commercial Television (independent...

being brought to substitute the nobler word) with interest: I share the view Miss Isabel Quigly expresses on a later page that the great thing is to have an alternative......

His Successor, Mr. Tyerman, Was Once One Of His Most

trusted colleagues, as assistant and then deputy editor of The Economist from 1937 to 1944. Mr. Tyerman combined this post for a year; from 1943 to 1944, with that of the deputy......