Mr. John Gordon Still Writes In The Sunday Express. A
few days ago a boy of fifteen was convicted at the Old Bailey of murder and was sentenced to be 'detained during Her Majesty's pleasure.' The judge at the trial asked the news-......
The Only Mild Controversy Which Arose Over The Report...
the treatment of psychopaths. Dr. Bennett admitted that it may be impossible to define a psychopath; but he felt—and I agree— that the Royal Commission was unwise to suggest......
A Spectator's Notebook
THE DEBATE in the Commons on mental health did not carry things much further, except in revealing a remarkable degree of unanimity in the House on the Royal Commis- sion's......
I Have Long Admired The Sunday Times's Habit Of Supplying
its readers with one gem of English poetry per week printed in magnificent italic on its centre page. Last Sunday's pabulum was 'The Gyres,' by W. B. Yeats, but acquaintance......
The Partisan
By RANDOLPH S. CHURCHILL T is not often in history that the leader of a I small country can play a political part which affects the destiny of the entire world. One would have......
For The Third Time, Mr. De Valera Has Felt Com-
pelled to take firm action against a quasi- military force in Ireland. He put down the Irish Republican Army and the Blueshirts in this way in the Thirties; and he may well be......
Of The Two Highly Important Decisions By The Court Of
Criminal Appeal under the Homicide Act, one (R. v. Dunbar), allowing the appeal, established that for the new defence of diminished responsibility to succeed, it need not be......
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