31 JANUARY 1958, page 7

I See That The Director Of The News Chronicle's Galliip

Poll still feels that the criticisms I have made of its methods have no substance. The point that I was trying to make was that to tabulate under the headings of definite......

The Attorney-general's Refusal To Allow The Spriggs Case...

to the House of Lords is extra- ordinary. Spriggs was convicted of capital murder, having pleaded diminished responsibility under Section 2 of the new Homicide Act. He then......

I Have At Last Been To Agnew's To See The

portrait of Princess Margaret by Signor Annigoni. None of the repioductions or deScriptions give the visitor even the faintest shadow of the full horror of it. The first thing......

Even Such A Stalwart Hanger As Sir Thomas Moore, Mp,

can hardly be happy about the Attorney-General's decision. I see he is to move a motion this Friday calling for the reintroduc- tion of hanging and flogging. One of his reasons......

A Spectator's Notebook

THE PREPOSTEROUS BBC policy of ignoring the existence of by-elec- tions—and, indeed, of general elec- tions apart from the `party political broadcasts'—looked for a moment......

Runaway Sweethearts Tessa . Kennedy, And Dominic' Elwes...

a typical, gay, young honeymoon couple today as they celebrate their secret marriage. . . Daily Express, p. 1, January 29. Not, perhaps, quite the best-kept secret of the......

After Criticising A Number Of The Daily Papers For...

that Mr. Wilson and others in the Labour Party did not come very well out of the Bank' rate business, Tribune-went on to sum up the affair thus : Mr. Wilson - told the police,......

I Thought That Mr. Gaitskell Came Out Of His Television

interview with Mr. Robin Day better than Mr. Butler did the week before. The chief difference between them was that Mr. Gaitskell answered the questions and so one did not......

Westminster Commentary

to the results of recent experiments indicating that in parts of a Christmas pudding adjacent to threepenny pieces there were 250 parts of copper in a million and in the case of......