A Spectator's Notebook

I WONDER which of the gros legumes in the Kremlin first suggested the break with precedent which resulted in this week's Russian newspapers printing the names of the nation's......

Footnote To Above

You fear that I have made a mistake '? You ask me to what I attribute the remarkable longevity of the philosopher Ting Wu-szti To caprice. I made him up.......

Peace Through Strength I T Is Now More Than A Year

since the Prime Minister made his unfortunate suggestion in the House of Commons that a high-level approach to the new rulers of Russia might miraculously serve to abolish the......

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Remove The Restriction_s And Exactions Which At Present...

machinery from functioning or even trying to function. I asked a friend whose firm is, or was, engaged in the China trade (in their Shanghai office alone, which they are not......

Intelligence From Lime Grove

After forty editions (two of which I saw and enjoyed) the television programme "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral ? ' coma to an end this week. I understand. that the BBC plans to......

Aspects Of Borehood

"What a bore that man is ! " said somebody when left us; but it was not really true. is a tiresome, intrusive, button-holing sort of person whom it is well worth crossing the......