A Spectator's Notebook
i MUST COMMISERATE with the Trades Union Congress, whose pamphlet What the TUC is Doing appears in the same week as Trade Unions, by Sydney Jacobson and William Connor— the......
John Betjeman's Working Of Pytchley And Belvoir Into A Verse
last week has inspired a number of topographical bards. The best effort comes from someone near Wolverhampton : A dashing young lady of Brewood With a quaint sense of fun was......
Coming Out Of A West End Theatre This Week I
overheard somebody explaining why a certain film, so much publicised when .it was being made two years ago, has failed to appear. 'They have run into legal troubles,' he said,......
* * * I Suppose One Of The Commonest Quotations
to be found' in books on journalism—often given a place to itself on a title , page—is Bernard Shaw's 'The highest literature is journalism , ' Shaw argued that Aristophanes,......
The Execution Of Mir Djaffar Bagirov, Formerly The Only...
of Russia's huge Turki and Moslem minorities among Moscow's top fourteen in the Party Presidium, is a striking actuality to set against the torrent of fine words which has led......
How People Vote
BY CHARLES CURRAN H OW do people make up their minds at a Parliamentary election? Why is it that one man votes Socialist while his neighbour votes Tory? Is it a matter of class,......
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