NEWS OF THE WEEK.
pARLIAMENT was reopened on Tuesday, and the Prime Minister has surpassed his record in the House of Commons. We have written elsewhere about the state of political parties and the influence which the Paisley by-election is having on political tendencies generally. But we must say here that Mr. Lloyd George has shown not a trace of the weariness which some of his best friends have been attributing to him—unless, of course, a special outburst of nervous energy is to .be taken as a symptom of weariness, as doctors say it sometimes is. The fact of the moment is that Mr. Asquith, having unfurled his banner against the forces of Socialism, has led the way. Mr. Lloyd George evidently thinks that Mr. Asquith's political instinct is right, and for our part we think that Mr. Lloyd George is right in thinking so. The interesting question of the next few months will be : Who is going to be the accepted leader, or which is going to be the accepted political party, to represent the nation in what we feel sure is an advancing tide of anti- Socialistic and anti-bureaucratic feeling ?
