* * * * Every Now And Then The Hack
whose business it is to comment upon the way of the world is bowled a googly, a ball that breaks both ways, cannot be left alone, and is exceedingly difficult to play. Into this......
* * * * Walking Down The Charing Cross Road
late the other night, we overtook a Sikh with a blonde on his arm. They were talking about the Faroe Islands. " That," I said to my friend, " is the sort of thing that makes......
The Other Day The Times Published A Fourth Leader (it
was bout something to do with ramblers and hikers) in which the titer quoted from " the White Paper recently produced by the oyal Commission on Leisure." The quotation—taken,......
The Cost Of Korea
T HERE has never been any real doubt as to what was the most important and most heartening result of the Communist attack on South Korea. It was the immediate crystallisation of......
When, Several Years Ago, I Chose The Pseudonym Of Strix
(mean- ing, as you all know, a screech-owl) in which to cloak the identity of Janus's stand-in, I did not foresee that my private life would one day be dislocated by a real,......
North Korea Is—among A Good Many Others Things—one Of He
homes of Felix tigris mongolica, commonly known as the Iberian tiger (the Russians call it tigre Ussuriski, after the Ussuri iver). It is easily the biggest of the tigers, and......
A Spectator's Notebook
T HE Daily Express started the week by announcing, under a headline, " The Press is in Danger," that the Government's policy over newsprint will--if there is a further cut in......
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