The Careers Of Prime Ministers' Sons Seem To Be Well
worth watching. Apart from Malcolm MacDonald, there is Sir Cyril Asquith, who has gained distinction in law rather than politics ; Major Gwilym Lloyd George ; Mr. Richard Law ;......
The Writer Of The Weekly Comments On The United Nations
Assembly in last week's Spectator may be right in saying that the style and title United Nations Organisation is incorrect, but that the abbreviation U.N.O. will remain......
One Alarming Prospect That Threatens The Nation Is A New
outbreak of peace celebrations. Why, with two V-Day double holidays— involving, if I remember the figures rightly, the loss of something like 2,000,000 tons of coal alone—behind......
The Future Of Coal
T HE thoroughness with which the Government's proposals for the nationalisation of the coal industry are being ventilated is a heartening thing. It is not particularly easy to......
Critics Have Always Been Generally Agreed About What Are The
best biographies in the English language. Boswell's 7ohnson is by general consent placed first ; Lockhart's Scott second ; and, with less unanimity, Sir George Trevelyan's Life......
Ever Since The Appointment Of Mr. Bryce In 1907, British
Ambassadors at Washington have been not of the professional but of the non-professional variety. Lord Halifax was of the latter type, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, who succeeds him,......
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One of the principal Parliamentary problems of the moment is congestion. There is no adequate time for the work to be done. There are so many Bills to be introduced, so many......
A Spectator 's Notebook
M R. EDEN was justified, I think, in saying at Preston on Monday that over a large field of existence the country is possessed by a sense of exasperation and frustration.......
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