Various Protests Against The Expenditure Of Taxpayers'...
English reach me. One, from a British Council lecturer, seems particularly pertinent. If, he says, he teaches his foreign students Basic English and then asks one of them to his......
The Phrase " By And Large " Worries Me A
little. Someone writes asking me to attack it. Logically I can't refuse, but for " on the whole," "all things considered," it is undeniably handy. Then why not say " on the......
A Spectator 's Notebook
I AM a good deal impressed by a report I have had from a business man at present touring Western Europe on the superiority of conditions in various countries he has visited to......
Gloom And Hope
T HE most deplorable feature of the deplorable debate on the financial and economic position of the nation in the House of Commons on Tuesday was that the whole of the day's......
Some Time In July The Festival Of English Sport Reaches
its zenith. Tennis at Wimbledon, rowing at Henley, cricket at Lord's and else- where, all denote climax in that particular field, particularly when, as this year, a Dominion......
When Sir Richard Livingstone Can Write Of An Overall...
of entrants into the teaching profession, " overall " in this context appearing to mean precisely nothing, my little crusade against this pestilential adjective seems doomed at......
The Doctrine That When You Have Good News You Should
share it is as old as the apostolic age. It is certainly very good news indeed that Mr. George Sampson's British Academy lecture on " The Century of Divine Songs," hitherto only......
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