Liberals-0
Lines Written in Consolation to Mr. Michael Hydleman, chairman of the Greater London Council Liberal Campaign Committee. Others perhaps contrive to rock the boat Or split a hair......
Silent Spring
A few months ago I was talking to two friends who had just returned from a walking tour in Switzerland. It was impossible not to notice, they said, that the countryside there,......
Bad Language
I read somewhere the other day that a certain village was to acquire an 'amenity centre.' This seemed a singularly disagreeable way of referring to a village green. In the same......
'great Betrayal'
No United Kingdom representative was present when General MacArthur was buried, with pharaonic splendour, in a Napoleonic sarco- phagus, at Norfolk, Virginia. I thought the stir......
Tailpiece
The only comment on the three famous Times articles that itself demands comment was pro- duced by the Lord Chancellor in the House of Lords. 'I find it difficult to accept,'......
Spectator's Notebook
THE news of Winston Field's resignation as Prime Minister has been inter- preted in the press and at Westminster in many different ways. A foolish few are openly delighted. The......
L. C. Knights
I congratulate Professor L. C. Knights on his appointment to the King Edward VII Chair of English Literature at Cambridge. There has been intense speculation, I gather, as to......
Peter Sellers
The news of Peter Sellers's illness set me thinking about the rich profusion of his talents. Then I heard the new LP record which he and his fellow-spirits Harry Secombe and......
Absentee Voters
I am sorry that the Bill to extend the right to a postal vote was 'talked out' last Friday. Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies, who introduced it, pointed out that, without such provision,......
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