It Is A Matter For Sombre Reflection That A Country

which can invent radar and a mechanical brain is completely incapable of solving the problem of tips. A year or two ago waiters and the like gave it to be understood that they......

Not Long Ago I Mentioned A Hope Once Expressed By

Mr. Churchill that by the restoration to office of M. Titulesco, whom M. Tataresco had displaced, we should get Tit for Tat. London, I observe, is now getting Sos for Szusz, a......

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The appeal for the preservation of Thackeray's House in Young Street, Kensington, is so unanswerable that merely to have made it should have secured its aim. There Thackeray......

It Is Possible That Not Many Readers Of This Column

are also readers of the Sunday Express. Those who are will be familiar with a weekly political column whose author styles himself Cross-Bencher. From the air of authority with......

Beyond The Strikes

T HERE is a fairly widespread, if somewhat indeterminate, belief that the present labour disputes on the British railways cannot simply be taken at their face value. A local......

A Spectator 's Notebook

I T was a great pity from some points of view that only one of the three speeches General Smuts made when he visited Cambridge last week ai Chancellor was reported—and that one......

I Try To See Sense In Everything, But It Is

sometimes difficult. When Dr. Evatt, for example, on arrival in Australia, says that the inter- national situation has improved greatly, largely because of a change in the......