5 OCTOBER 1956, page 7

From Towards Equality? A Hard Labour Policy For Social...

by Hugo O'Hear (Hollis and Carter, Is.): 'It is a pity God did not create Karl Marx before he created the world: if he had, he might have used a better system.' PHAROS......

A Spectator's Notebook

LABOUR MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT often carry naivety about what goes on in foreign countries to a point which is inexcus- able in practising politicians. One of the worst instances......

I Have Been Sent A Translation Of The Preface To

the current issue of the Italian review Ulisse, which is entirely devoted to a study of 'England Today.' The various articles in this special number, which I haven't yet seen,......

It Will Not Have Escaped Observant Readers That I Am

uneasy about the course which commercial television has taken; and I am not reassured by Sir Kenneth Clark's apologia on the occasion of the publication of the Independent......

Political Commentary

BY CHARLES CURRAN T HE Labour Party has decided to think with its blood. Outside its Blackpool Conference Hall this week was a Keir Hardie exhibition. The delegates resolved to......

I Was Delighted To Be Told By A Friend Of

mine who knows that part of the world that the memory of Genghiz Khan is still green (or should it be red?) in the Inner Mongolian autono- mous region. The bier of the conqueror......