Precedents No Doubt A Depressing Light Has Been Cast On
the state of sexual morality in our ruling classes. Whether in fact it is much worse than it was a hundred years ago in Palmerston's time is a question that cannot really be......
The Question Of Features I Think The Contrasts Made With
his predecessor were rather beside the point. We were asked to contrast the aristocratic features of Pius XII with the peasant features of John XXIII. I do not know quite what......
Long Arm Of The Church
But it may well be that the middle classes are taking up the vices of their betters and also of their inferiors. We have in the spectacle of an eminent Cambridge divine......
Beyond The Good
This was in marked contrast to the universal outpouring of respect and even love which followed a week or two later when it became known that the Man of Sin was dying. Not many......
No Auld Alliance
My native land, Scotland, is not quite so tolerant. A sudden illness immured me in a Glasgow nursing home and I was able to follow the reports of the various church assemblies......
Surrey Pub In Summer
BY DIANA MORGAN Under the spreading Chestnut tree Commuters, wearing espadrilles, Each Sunday lunch time down their Pimms. The sunlight glints on the horn rims And Asprey......
A Kind Of Aristocracy And The Description Of The Roncalli
family as peasants was misleading in a country where there are no peasants. The Roncallis have been farming their own land near Bergamo for at least 500 years, and for that......
A Spectator's Notebook
' e know no spectacle so ridiculous as the W British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.' It is almost certain that Macaulay's famous dictum will be proved right......
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