A Spectator's Notebook
Old age," General de Gaulle once observed, "is a shipwreck." He applied the remark to Petain, but there were many, among his friends as well as his enemies, who applied the......
Irlippocratic Oath . We, Who Have Sworn The Hippocratic...
Are dedicated to a noble cause, To cure man's ills, unsparing, never loath, To give our all, without a moment's pause. The English home's a castle, it is said, Where the......
Masquerade
Publicity for the scheme was organised by another figure of the political past, Toby O'Brien, once director of publicity at Central Office and himself a former president of the......
Stout Party
Even the elderly or aged or just plain old are not, unfortunately, immortal. The other week that great detective story writer, Rex Stout, died at the age of eight - eight.......
Previous page
