3 AUGUST 1945, page 4

The Nineteenth Century Has Served Both Its Own Ends And

the public interest by printing in its current issue, to the length of over twenty pages, the lengthy and important judgement by Mr. Justice Birkett in the recent libel action,......

From The Crowding Multitude Of Reflections Which The...

excites it is hard to sort out the two or three that seem to predominate. But about the first there can be no question. Thousands, perhaps millions, even of those who cast votes......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HE first day of Parliament, I gather frcm a new Member who was there, was marked by unusual ebullience. The immense Labour contingent which much more than filled the......

That Having Been Said, Little Room Is Left For Further

reflections, and I will be content with one alone. Readers of this column would no more forgive me than I could forgive myself if I did not express the deep regret that everyone......

Having Been Slightly Concerned In A University Election...

the system known as the single transferable vote, I have had an opportunity of studying the system at close quarters. This is no place for a general disquisition on the subject,......

The New Chapter

T HE one essential factor about the General Election and its result is that it marks a sharp transition from national to party government The transition, of course, had to be......