26 FEBRUARY 1965, page 7

Stretching A Point The British Universities Rugby Party...

tour south-west France is certainly an im- pressive one, not least because of the inclusion of Ken Jones and Ray McLaughlin, respectively the best centre and the best......

Nanny's Last Fling The London County Council Is Dying, But

the spirit of the Nanny State fights on. Next Tuesday the LCC is to consider a recommendation that the Home Secretary be invited to introduce legis- lation so that smoking could......

Change It Will Not Have Escaped Our Readers' Notice (very

little does) that the front cover of this week's Spectator is different from its predecessors. There haVe been a number of such changes in the paper's long life, but we are......

J. F. K.

The United States Information Services have a ninety-minute documentary film about John Kennedy's Presidency. It has been shown so far in Luton and the House of Commons and......

Tailpiece

Short of ordering handwriting tests for the entire population, it is hard to see how an anony- mous postcard could constitute a breach, of privilege. But one sentence used by......

Robbers, Coppers And Notes

By R. A. CLINE O NE, of the most remarkable 'things about Mrs. Fordham's gripping story of the great mail train robbery is that she was able to write the book at all. She has......

Spectator's Notebook

l r seems against nature for doctors to strike, and I hope that , this latest dispute, the most serious since the National Health Service began, will end in peace. If it does,......