A Friend Who Has Just Returned From The Riviera Tells
me that all the towns and villages along the coast are lamenting the continued absence of visitors. Hotels in Monte Carlo, Nice, Cannes and lesser places which a few years ago......
Development Without Planning
T HE • Government's scheme to raise £40 millions for railway improvements in and round London is now well under way, and the money resolution for it was passed by agreement in a......
Perhaps Something Of This Kind Was In The Mind Of
the anonymous head of an English school who has been offer- ing a prize of £100 for the best " lesson " in the form of an essay explaining the peace principles of Sir Norman......
* * * The Horse-drawn Lorry, To Which I Have
referred more than once in this column, is becoming a more intolerable obstruction than ever in the centre of London, and for all I know, other great cities. What has made......
A Spectator's Notebook
I T is rather surprising that Lord Ullswater should maintain that the Speaker has " all the advantages and disadvantages of having a constituency." He obviously has not the......
This Is The Time Of Year When Schools Have Speech
days, and speakers at more than one school, annoyed with Mr. Lansbury's pugnacious remarks about the Prince of Wales, have commented on the ethics of school 0.T.Cs. The......
* * It Seems To Me To Be Rather Absurd
to appeal to the Labour Party to observe the " gentleman's agreement " in regard to the Speaker. There is a " gentleman's agreement " between all parties which demands respect......
We Are All Of Us, After A Quick Change Remarkable
in a Government department, feeling very benevolent to the Post Office, what with all the benefits recently bestowed on us by Sir Kingsley Wood, and a Golden Voice spon- sored......
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