Political Commentary
BY HENRY FAIRLIE I T has happened. In the Atheneum, where they keep the public copy of The Times, oddly, in the hall, between the door and the lavatories, I suppose they read......
A Spectator's Notebook
THE HOME SECRETARY has not yet succeeded in doing or saying anything sensible about the case of the three men who were Wrongfully convicted of assaulting a policeman. He first......
I Have Always Considered The Felling Of A Tree (not
that I have any great taste for the pathetic fallacy) to be a rather melancholy business, so I am not without sympathy for The Men of the Trees in the row they have been making......
Among Our Public Men There May Be Some Who Can
unbend without creaking. But Mr. Harold Macmillan and Sir Anthony Eden are not among them. Mr. Macmillan's 'There ain't gonna be no war' was an embarrassing experience for his......
I Take It That The Dismissal Of Kruglov, Timed Nicely
just before the Party Congress, is one more sign that the pot is still boiling in the Soviet power struggle. He had been Stalin's l ocal protection expert as long ago as Teheran......
Imperial Intelligence
LAGOS . . . one of the jewels of Her Majesty's realms . . . —BBC. . . . this ramshackle town . . .—Evening Standard. * `LIZIEET, Lizibet,' they roar.—Sunday Graphic. A MILLION......
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