31 MAY 1963, page 7

Hankalong

High speed, in fact, is inhuman, and it's the dehumanising element in driving that's going to ma im Us all in time.' We all knew, before the P s Ychologists told us, that a car......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE fifty m.p.h. speed limit is OK with me, although I am an ordinary impatient driver (the kind who keeps muttering 'move aside Grandad,' on weekend outings). I doubt whether......

It's A Secret In The Meantime, We Have The Bomb,

and con- sequently we have security, and occasionally we have what is called treason. And all three seem equally nonsensical, if you take a childlike view of men's affairs......

In The Dock

I am looking at a picture of a man looking at a copy of the Spectator dated July 7, 1832. The paper was one of the contemporary treasures buried in a glass jar under the......

Verfrerndungseffekt The Bit Of The Ageing Process That...

me, when I have time to think about it, is the growing alienation of my generatiOn from the one that's coming up. It worries me because I've always thought 1 was one of the more......

Who Said Monstrous Regimen?

The battle for human rights and civil and s t Ptritu a l equality and all that stuff is always being °d.ght everywhere and it usually looks as if it is go i ng to be won,......

Out Of The Mixer Colour-concrete Poems Are Probably Old...

stuff to the real lads, but I have just seen my first, and it's got me worried to death. It has been written, and published, by Ian Hamilton Finlay, the agreeable fanatic who......

Superkill According To A Special Supplement In Stephen...

this week, the Americans now have the bomb-and-delivery capacity to kill everybody in every city in the world 125 times over. I take this seriously, but there is no doubt that......