Writing In Fast Week's Spectator, Mr. Ian Niall Described...
a friend of his accompanied two poachers on a successful foray. " The keeper," his anecdote concluded, " did not manage to come up with the law-breakers "; and this, he seemed......
A Spectator's Notebook
T HE Japanese, recognised from 1941 to . 1945 as particularly cruel and treacherous barbarians, were subsequently reclassified by General MacArthur as starry-eyed democrats,......
Most Of Us Believe That The Works Of Shakespeare Were
written by Shakespeare, but a few propound with passion the theory that Bacon was responsible for the whole boiling. It is, I surmise, this minority who will react most......
The Real Housing Problem
0 N the face of it there could scarcely be a more concrete problem than that of housin g . As seen by most politicians and by all of the house-seekers, whose misfortunes have......
Eton, With What Many People Think Is Doubtful Wisdom, Still
allows boys to be entered for it at birth, or even before birth - (I know at least - two little girls who can claim to have been down for Eton). But however quick off the mark a......
I See, Incidentally, That In The Second Week Of The
Korean war, more than two years ago, I wrote—rather pompously—in the Spectator: " It is perhaps not altogether fanciful to suggest that one (and not the least important) of the......