Spectator's Notebook
AFTER more than a year of bitter internal argu- ment, during which time industrialists have been left to grope in the dark, the Government has at last come out with its new......
Family Trouble In Their Different Ways, The...
and African members have simul- taneously been plunged into a similar crisis—a crisis of national unity. In India, the emotional Mrs. Gandhi's chief qualification for Mr.......
Tailpiece A Flourishing City Merchant Banker I Know Has For
some years now made a practice of in- sisting that any candidate for a senior executive post in the bank must first submit a specimen of his handwriting for expert analysis. As......
Alice In Wonderland
I see that the Minister of State at the Home Office, Miss Alice Bacon, has been sounding off in the Hull by-election about the iniquity of the rule that allows mortgage interest......
O Tempora Slips Of The Pen, To Use An Old-fashioned
euphemism, are invariably more revealing than the texts of which they form a part. Monday's Times provided a perfect example of this. In two different places, on the bill page......
Commitment
I congratulate the Tory Study Group under the chairmanship of Peter Thorneycroft, which has now published its report under the title Crime Has No Boundaries, for going farther......
Political Commentary
The Importance of Mr. Gott By ALAN WATKINS T the last general election there was a slight but perceptible change in the pattern of British politics. The 'swing' ceased to......