Western Christmas
T HERE is a temptation today to celebrate Christmas as a feast of the West. In a sense it is right to do so. The Western World owes its whole character to its Christian origins,......
A Spectator's Notebook
E XTRACTS from the journal of The Devonshire Regiment, which show that in its 1st Battalion there has been a certain amount of inter-company rivalry about the number of ,Mau Mau......
Death And Duty
But there is a• big difference between a few men being occasionally brutal and a whole unit being systematically bloodthirsty. It is this charge to which evidence like that in......
Spectator Competition For Schools
The Spectator offers three prizes, each of books to the value of eight guineas, for articles to be written by boys and girls in schools In the United Kingdom. Entries should be......
Puzzle Corner
I assume it was professional jealousy which caused the pundits who compile the Spectator's " Christmas Questions " ' to reject my well-meant offering. Here it is : The words "......
Motto For A Marxist Cracker
" Capitalist society is basically hostile to the needs of children." The Daily Worker, Dec. 21st. STRIX......
Down With Culture •
There is only one odd thing about a letter which takes me to task for some half-forgotten reference to Philistines who object to the State subsidising art. The writer expresses......
Mr. Prie,stley'a Miinchausens
On the last Sunday before Christmas the Sunday Times makes a practice of inviting various eminent people to say what books published during the year they have liked or admired......
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