3 OCTOBER 1958, page 7

By Some Twist Of Fate, Every Time The Irish Do

something praiseworthy they go and spoil it by doing something downright foolish. Recently at the UN the Republic of Ireland was the only Western country which had the courage......

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WITH HIS LETTER objecting to my criticisms of commercial television (to which I reply in our correspondence columns), Mr. John Irwin in- cluded a list of the programmes he is......

The Editor Of The Observer Ends His Courteous Letter In

our correspondence columns this week by saying that he gladly accepts my 'taunt that the Observer takes racialism particularly seriously.' I made no such taunt. What I did say......

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PUTTING IT DIFFERENTLY, you can support a judicial penal policy, i.e. one you think is right, or you can support a 'political' penal policy, i.e. one you know to be wrong but......

A Spectator's Notebook

IF MEMBERS of the Labour Party wish to understand the reasons for its present unpopularity, they could do worse than examine a couple of paniphlets which have come out in......

Mrs. Castle's Remarks About British Troops In Cyprus Were...

and misplaced, and they well deserved criticism. But the outpouring of ministerial patriotism that has descended upon her head has been rather ,overdone. The Lord Chancellor,......

A Friend Who Was In Paris Last Weekend Has Described

to me the sense of happy catharsis everywhere as the French came out of church on a hot Sunday morning and ambled across the street to discharge their 'Yesses' down the ballot......