A Spectator's Notebook
I DO NOT KNOW if many tele- viewers took the Queen's Speech literally, and thought that the Government's meas- ures and policy had her per- sonal approval and benedic- tion; but......
Dr. Donald Mel. Johnson, Mp, Has Written For The Spectator
on an odd variety of subjects, ranging from the deficiencies of mental health institutions to the sins of the State pubs in his constituency of Carlisle. His A Doctor in......
For Cynical Effrontery, The Leading Article In The Daily...
following the Anzio air crash takes some beating. A member of the Sketch staff, a free-lance photographer, and a free-lance reporter (formerly a stringer for Confidential) were......
I Am In Favour Of Free Speech Even For Monarchs
and field-marshals. Suggestions that King George VI 'interfered' in politics by giving advice to Ministers (which they did not have to accept) seem to me as absurd as the idea......
Disappointment
By DARSIE GILLIE Paris THE rejection by the Algerian 'Government' in Cairo of General de Gaulle's offer of a safe-conduct to Paris for any rebel delegation that wished to......
I Had Known Willie Stone (who Died On Sunday At
well over 101) since he was a mere eighty-five Few men can ever have so thoroughly enjoyed so completely wasting such a long life. He came down from Cambridge in 1878 with a......
When A Friend Of Mine Became Engaged To Be Married,
and took his young woman along to make Willie's acquaintance, Willie—then about ninety-five or so—said on hearing her surnam e that there had been a boy of that name at h is......
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