Victory By Air
T HAT there should be steadily growing in the public mind a conviction of the dominating importance of air-power and an increasing uneasiness about the use being made of British......
The Question Of The Free Books Which Publishers Must Send
to the University Libraries at Oxford and Cambridge, the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales (not, as I erroneously said last week, the University of Wales), and to Trinity......
I Don't Know Why Parliament's Indirect Control Of The B.b.c.
should enable Members to try to spoil the market for competent broadcasters. It was stated in the House on Wednesday that per- formers (if I may so term them) in the Brains......
A Spectator's Notebook
T HE Prime Minister's stock is not high at the moment. It is a pity, but there is no doubt about it. The reasons are various, and the course military operations are taking is......
* * * * Applications For Damns: "mayfair's Most Unique
restaurant." Damn affixed ; where there is only one of the kind there can be no more or most about it. " The Government have . . ." Damn withheld. Collective nouns, can be......
It So Happens, I Believe, That The Sons Of Sir
Archibald Sinclair, Sir Arthur Street, Permanent Secretary of the Air It so happens, I believe, that the sons of Sir Archibald Sinclair, Sir Arthur Street, Permanent Secretary......
In The Little Booklet Cromwell Speaks, Which The Oxford...
Press publishes at sixpence, I find one quotation of unexpected relevance. The booklet contains a foreword by Mr. Isaac Foot, chairman (and, I believe, chief founder) of the......
S.p.c.e.
This corner is becoming a grave responsibility. A critic who defends " reportedly " (not without plausibility, I admit) on the analogy of " confessedly " and " avowedly "......
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