Not That Mr. Davies I Find Myself Obliged, Once And
for all, 1 hope, to correct a correction. Mr. Ivor Davies, who has hopes of being Liberal Member for Oxford City, got it wrong about Mr. Ifor Davies, the Labour MP for Gower,......
Paris Goes Clean
From DARSIE GILLIE PARIS p AR1S is washing her face of stone. It began last winter, when the northern side of the Place de la Concorde suddenly blossomed like a Christmas rose,......
Spectator's Notebook
T WILL neither shout at the man at the wheel I nor spit on the deck, said Baldwin when he gave up the Premiership. Lord Avon would have done well to recall Baldwin's promise, do......
Where Be His Gibes?
I'm sure my ill-wishers will enjoy the latest description of poor Starbuck as 'a squalid, mind- less piece of degenerated protoplasm,' which comes from somebody in......
In The Family The Editor Says That We Shouldn't Review
books by members of the staff. If the review's good, it smells slightly fishy; if it's murderous, then there's the temptation to get someone to write a re- joinder saying that......
For Pity's Sake I Lodged Once In The Basement Of
a house which was full of strange and pitiful noises—like the crying of an animal in constant pain. Within a few days I learned that behind a door at the end of the corridor lay......
Fixing The Treasury A Friend Of Mine In The City
tells me that the gossips of the inner circles take it for granted 'That's Lord Elgin. He hasn't got all his marbles.' that the real struggle a fortnight ago was between the......
Consuming Interest Who Was It The Other Month Who Was
ad- vocating the substitution of the word 'user' for 'consumer'? I'm altogether in favour of this, *Hutchinson, 30s. having grown quite sick of the image of our society as a......