That Mr. C. A. Elliott, On Abandoning The Headmastership Of
Eton at the end of the summer half, should succeed to the Provostship left vacant by the death of Sir Henry Marten was no doubt in the natural order of things ; at any rate it......
At Last, It Must Be Assumed, The Almost Criminally Hard
case of Professors at Oxford and Cambridge and some—but not all—other universities is to be dealt with on a basis of justice. That has happened in a roundabout way. The Ministry......
I See That The Arduosities Of The Labour Conference At
Shanklin were mitigated by selections from the Minister of Education's inexhaustible repertory of anecdotes. I shall be surprised if this was not one of them: As two men were......
A Spectator 's Notebook
T HE air is still thick with political rumour, all of it pure specula- tion and very little of it intelligent speculation. The story that Labour would go for a snap election if......
A Speaker At A St. David's Day Lunch In London
on Tuesday rather startled his audience by observing: " I have had a long and not very distinguished career. Perhaps that is because I was a war- baby. I was born during the......
The Indispensable Whitaker, Having Just Published Its...
for 1949—takes occasion to recall that at the time of its first issue, in 1869, the national income was £75,000,000, income tax 5d. in the £, and the total of the National Debt......
I Have Been Surprised Before This At Estimates I Have
heard of the small number of aeroplanes needed to serve the travelling public of the world adequately. And the emotion does not wear off. In the debate on the Air Estimates in......
Mr. Christopher Mayhew, On Whom So Embarrassing A...
been turned in the past week, is not only one of the Labour Party's intellectuals but one of its (fairly numerous) men of means. Aged thirty-three, and unmarried, he is the son......
From Dollars To Pounds
I T is a little surprising that Mr. Mayhew's unfortunate statement to the effect that British recovery is now complete should have been resented primarily by certain Americans.......
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