Invective, Alas, Cannot Be Summarised; But The Flavour...
given by Cassandra's conclusion: Before the 1939 war I reported the war in Spain when the Italians were bombing Barcelona. I was detained by the Gestapo at Tempelhof aerodrome......
I Have Encountered Much Annoyance About The Cool...
to Mark Bonham Carter on his appearance in the House of Commons, where he was greeted by members of the two main parties with embarrassed silence : surely they might have had......
The Voters At Torrington Did Not Think That Electing Mark
Bonham Carter would abolish bureaucracy, lower the cost of living or prevent Rent Act evictions. Theirs was a gesture of un- planned defiance. So was the Aldermaston march. Of......
One Of The Most Enjoyable Pieces Of Invective I Have
read for a long time was Cassandra's column in Wednesday's Mirror. He had been smeared by John Gordon for his 'John Bull's Schooldays' article in the Spectator a couple of weeks......
Khrushchev's Speeches To The Hungarians, Loaded As They...
with hypocritical cant, have tome at an appropriate moment; nobody, having read them, is likely to regard as sincere his present line on the H-bomb. In our correspon- dence......
A Spectator's Notebook
I NEVER supposed that Mr. Philip Toynbee's declared intention of walking all the way to Hungary at the time of the revolution would come to much. But he might at least, on Good......
John Strachey's Pamphlet Scrap All The H-bombs Is Much More
sensible than most of the stuff which has appeared on the Left recently; but its chief proposal—that Britain should on her own and without waiting for an international agree-......
A Worthy Opponent.
* * * FROM THE World's Press News: When is a newspaper office not a newspaper office? . . . Mr. Simes, a member of the Land Tribunal, heard an appeal by Kemsley News- papers......
Tory Reactions To The Liberal Revival Have Been...
it could no longer be ignored, the Liberals were threatened with the withdrawal of the pacts in Bolton and Huddersfield by which the party has secured representation at the last......
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