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Hilaire Belloc Described Oxford As 'malarial Spot Which...

medeeval (though it's not)? The truth of this is shown all too plainly by Oxford's appeal this week for £1,750,000 to save its buildings. The medioeval parts of Oxford are in......

Westminster Commentary June 6, 1957: Mr. Lipton Asked The...

of State for the Home Department in what circumstances he auth- orised the police to supply the Bar Council, in connec- tion with a disciplinary matter affecting a barris- ter,......

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Evelyn Waugh on THE TICHBORNE CLAIMANT Graham Hutton on ENGLISH ECCENTRICS......

The Tablet, In A Recent Article, Has Been Con- Gratulating

itself on immense progress in the tone and temper of contemporary Roman Catholic apologetic, and suggests that 'an Anglican who is on the look-out for something at which to take......

Over The Weekend I Was Hearing A Couple Of The

latest Warsaw political jokes. The first tells of a conversation between Gomulka and Car- dinal Wyszinski before the latter's departure for Rome. The Secretary-General of the......

Tim Extraordinary Action Of The Home Office In Handing Over

the transcript of a tapped telephone call has excited so much interest that the squalid role the Bar Council has played in the affair has been virtually ignored. However the......

A Spectator's Notebook I Cannot Help Thinking That Sir John

Harding was unwise to issue his statement about the allegations of brutality which have been made against British forces in Cyprus. Last week the Colonial Under- Secretary said......