What, No Bribery?
Those who, like Gibbon and Namier, have marked the connection between corruption and liberty—no one, said Namier, will bribe when he can bully—will deplore the winding up of the......
Talking At Ditchley In Wartime The Lovely House Of Ditchley
Park near Oxford was on occasion a headquarters of Winston Churchill's, and here a number of im- portant talks with American leaders were held. It is now the Anglo-American......
`and Naked To The Hangman's Noose'
The cover of New Outlook, the Liberal news- paper, features a charming parody of Con- servative advertisements. Under a picture of a teddy bear with a severed head there is the......
Fhe Cure For Crime
By KATHLEEN J. SMITH* D OBBERIES are now being reckoned in frac- tions and multiples of a million pounds. Jewellery, bullion, banknotes. What used to be considered at best a......
Spectator's Notebook
IN an article in the Sun- day Times Robert Harling advocated the turning of Leicester Square into a pedestrian precinct. This would be a pleasant rever- sion to the Edwardian......
Tailpiece January 10, 1964: 'in Next Week's Spectator...
reviews The Fight for the Tory Leadership, by Randolph S. Churchill.' January 12, 1964: 'How much longer is Mr. lain Macleod going to keep up his baffling silencer- Sydney......
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