Most Of Us Have Had Experience Of State-owned Transport....
on the Trans-Caspian Railway, I was the only passenger in the only " soft " coach who was not a Soviet railway official going to a " self- criticism conference " in Tashkent.......
I.istening To Some People Arguing About The National...
Act I found myself wondering why nothing is ever done for the healthy. Even in a hypochondriacal community like ours, there is a proportion of the population who, whether by......
Talking Of Health, Nothing Will Persuade Me That The...
with regard to Disability Pensions for ex-Servicemen is not a scandal. The main facts, as I understand them, are that in 1919 the basic rate for a single man who had been......
The Second Peace Christmas
T HE second peace Christmas awakes reflections that may too easily be sardonic. Is it peace? Still more, is it peace and good will? Peace is something far other than the mere......
I Am Very Glad To See That The Hansard Society
(r62, Buckingham Palace Road, S.W.i) has published a new and improved edition of Mr. Strathearn Gordon's admirable book, " Our Parliament "—im- proved in that it is now bound in......
A Spectator's Notebook
I THINK the most fiddling argument I have ever heard advanced by an Englishman in favour of his country pursuing a certain course of action is the fact that rather less than......
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Hide and seek in the dark is, I suppose, hardly played at all now. It would be an eminently patriotic game from Mr. Shinwell's point of view, but in all other 'respects it is......
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