During Recent Years Unofficial Meetings In Committee...
become increasingly important in the life of Parliament. The great Conservative majority often prefers to thrash out its internal controversies in private On the face of them......
The Attendance At Several Debates During The Last...
been extremely poor, a fact to which some of the news- papers have very rightly called attention. There are far too many members, especially on the Government side, who only......
The Case For Liquor Restriction
An article on another page of this issue raises very perti- nently the question of liquor restrictions in war-time. The subject has many angles. That undue consumption of......
The " Hard-core" Of Unemployment
One of the most distressing elements in pre-war un- employment was the large number of men who were out of work over a long period of time—amongst them not only older men,......
The Week In Parliament
Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes : Tuesday's debate on Workmen's Compensation was a somewhat acri- monious affair. During the last war an Act was passed authorising a......
Munitions Output Misgivings
There was one passage in particular in Mr. Churchill's speech at Manchester last Saturday to which too much importance cannot be attached. It was that in which he spoke of the......