Labour's Future
I T is not recorded that anyone at Scarborough this week said that the British Labour Party was at the cross-roads. At this party conference, as at all party conferences, the......
It Would Not Be Going Too Far To Say That
General Gordon is more in the public eye today than he was during most of his lifetime. The future of his statue is being discussed daily in the papers and the Ministry of......
It Is A Tragic Irony That Baffy Dugdale, Fated To
see the Promised Land but not to enter therein, should have died on the very day on which the new State of Israel was proclaimed, for there was, I suppose, no more passionate......
The Libel Committee Marathon Is Beginning To Attract...
The official name of the body in question is, I believe, the Committee on Changes in the Law of Defamation, and it has been sitting, under the chairmanship of Lord Porter, since......
A Spectator's Notebook
T HE Labour Party has suffered little in the loss of Mr. Platts- Mills. It suffers much in the loss of Mr. Alfred Edwards, whose expulsion from the party looks like an......
As I Rather Expected, My Reference To The Paucity Of
books on Wiltshire has brought news of one or two books on Wiltshire which do exist, notably one in the late Arthur Mee's " The King's England " series and one by A. G. Bradley,......
I Am Not Surprised That Mr. E. M. Forster Has
resigned from the National Council of Civil Liberties. I shall only be surprised if his resignation is not followed by others. This body has been moving visibly to the Left for......
How Will Sir Charles Reid Spend The Leisure To Which
he has con- demned himself ? I should think watching open-cast mining, for it is impossible to imagine him away from coal. He has had more than fifty years of it—in the Fife......
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