Ipse Dixit
'I think we've been a very pragmatic govern- ment. We shall remain a pragmatic government.' —H. Wilson, Election Forum, BBC TV, March 10. Pragmatic: 1. Relating to the affairs......
Spectator's Notebook
0 NE of the few good things about this so far oddly unreal election campaign is that there are signs that the conspiracy of silence about sterling and the exchange rate is at......
Hail And Farewell
A last farewell to the great Bonnard exhibition which closed on Sunday. Sad to contemplate all that colour draining out of London, and to think that one can no longer turn in at......
Forward To Sedan
With scrupulous courtesy and a proper sense of the historic importance of what he was about, President de Gaulle's letters to President John- son, Mr. Wilson, Chancellor Erhard......
Black Benchmark
It would, I suppose, be unduly restrictive to suggest that the proper province of a judge is to try the case in hand, and that his duty ends there; but it is only too apparent......
The Remarks Of Mr. Justice Stevenson Were Unfortunate...
what are we to make of the recent decision by Mr. Justice Stable to release to the press photographs of a couple who had been attacked by a young thug on the grounds that......
Old Father William
Just how far away we still are from the rational discussion that Hirsch and I would both like to see was amply evidenced by the behaviour of our two 'heavy' dailies over the......
What Kind Of Welfare?
By ARTHUR SELDON I s it time the politician was deflated and put in his place? He should re-read Shakespeare. In war we can stand—we desperately need—a warrior-leader Churchill.......
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