11 OCTOBER 1946, page 5

Back To Westminster

A FTER a two - months' recess in which a good deal has happened, or failed to happen, in the foreign field, the Parliamentary contest, so far as it is a contest, is joined......

A Spectator's Notebook

y F there has been any enthusiasm about the batch of Ministerial I changes it has failed to manifest itself in my vicinity. The institu- tion of a Defence Ministry is no doubt a......

Mr. Shinwell May In Many Ways Be A Very Good

Minister of Fuel and Power ; on that I express no opinion. But he would be a very much better Minister if he were a much more silent Minister. Consider some of his recent......

Mr. Justice Birkett, Having Been Sitting In An Improvised...

of law for the last ten months, seized the earliest opportunity of renew- ing touch with the real thing by taking his seat on the bench at Aylesbury Quarter Sessions on Monday.......

I Am Sorry To Learn That The Bishop Of Gibraltar

(the Right Rev. Harold Buxton) is retiring from that office at the end of the year on medical advice—on medical advice, indeed, which has for some little time been disregarded.......

Mr. Bernard Shaw Was In Excellent Voice When The St.

Pancras Borough Council made him the first Honorary Freeman of the borough on Wednesday—so much so that the fact that, owing to an accident, he could not be present in the flesh......

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I am glad to see that Mr. W. L. Andrews, editor of The York- shire Post, in his editorial address to the Institute of Journalists last Saturday, laid stress on one salient......