Libel Actions Against Newspapers Are Comparatively Rare—...
of court are less so—and it is curious not only that two should have been reported in Tuesday's papers, but that both should have concerned the Daily Worker. In the first case......
The Voter's Choice
T HIS is the last issue of the Spectator to appear before the votes are cast next Thursday. Now, therefore, is the time to consider the claims of the rival parties and strike......
The Action Of Dr. Gilbert Murray In Speaking On Behalf
of Sir Ralph Glyn, the Conservative candidate for Abingdon, is a portent, for if any man in England has Liberalism in the very marrow of his bones it is Gilbert Murray. It is......
Mr. Morrison In His Broadcast On Wednesday Evening...
Churchill as " almost rubbing his bands at the microphone because he had just heard of the trouble blowing up in Egypt." That is about the vilest thing that has been said in the......
The Ministry Of Civil Aviation, I Gather, Has Been In
earnest cogitation on a name for the helicopter landing-grounds which are expected to multiply in this country fairly rapidly., It is a subject on which I have already said......
Was Dr. Charles Hill's Election Broadcast On Tuesday As Good
as in 1950 ? On the whole the general verdict seems to be not quite." For one thing there was no Priestley for him to hit this time. For another no one believes that an......
A Spectator's Notebook N O One Of Normal Mental Poise Is
likely to risk any con- fident prediction about the election. Still, with barely a week to go, there ought to be some conclusion to be drawn from various available facts. The......