Marginal Comment
By HAROLD NICOLSON I N the hall of the Café Royal the other day I met one of the younger and more gifted of our Labour politicians. He had come in from Regent Street and I was......
I Do Not Regret, Either, The Passing Of The Social
habits which existed before 1914. I remember in the last war helping Monsieur Paul Cainbon into his brougham. He wore a grey top-hat, a grey frock-coat and yellow leather......
Thinking These Not Unpleasant Thoughts I Crept, With Head...
against wind and rain, along the north side of Trafalgar Square The water poured in cascades from the roof of St. Martin's, and I splashed into puddles at the cross-streets.......
Talleyrand, As We Know, Remarked That Only Those Who Lived
before the Revolution had any conception of how pleasant life could be. I have never experienced the slightest desire to live in. the eighteenth century. The formality of their......
Will Such Young Men Really Be Satisfied To Become Clerks
in offices at Wolverhampton, or will they readily support the politician who preaches a new world of organised equality against the politician who preaches opportunity for those......
We Assume Today That The Levelling Process Will Continue...
increased momentum throughout the war, and that in the end we shall emerge as an almost classless State, resigned to a continuance of coupons and controls. I do not myself see......
The County Badge •
By THE MASTER OF BALLIOL • T HE Headmaster of Bolton School, Mr. F. R. Poskitt, in his article in last week's Spectator, wrote that " in school hours the child as personality,......
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