4 SEPTEMBER 1964, page 11

Bargain

Shaken by the Estimates Committee's revela- tions on Service expenditure (e.g., it costs us £1,000 a year to keep an Army dog in Singapore), some taxpayers at least must have......

On To Megalopolis At The British Association's - Meeting,...

A. A. L. Caesar's depiction of the megalopolis which is to extend over the South-East and the Midlands (with bits of countryside left in to fill the role of. city parks) was......

Spectator's- Notebook

August for the people ... Yes, but not, ordinarily, a good month for con- noisseurs of the English scene. The landscape turns dusty and the trees hang, like metal imitations, in......

Injustice The Scottish And Welsh Nationalists Represent...

resistance to the steam-rollering of local identity. Dotty as, I fear, their ultimate purposes irremediably are, they exert a mild appeal which persists through all electoral......

Aoticyclone

The meaning of the old politicians' clichd, that a good summer is a powerful ally to a govern- merit approaching an election, is not, of course, that line weather and happy......

Outside The Circle

This spirit of unwilling acceptance recurs in Mr. Geoffrey Moorhouse's new Penguin, The Other England, which is a readable and interest- ing account of life and its problems......

Echoes Of A Report-5

What is Happening to the Railways? By D. L. MUNBY N o report since Beveridge had such wide press coverage as the Beeching Plan. Supporters and opponents hailed it as masterly.......