A Reader, Who On Internal Evidence Can Scarcely Be Classed
as an admirer, has sent me Dr. Johnson's views on the bird which provides me with a pseudonym " It is reported of the Sybarites, that they destroyed all their Cocks, that they......
Margate Rock
I F the Labour Party fails to recover before the end of this year a measure of that trust and support which put it in power in 1945, it will not be for any lack of......
Talking Of Ultimate Truth, I Liked The Way The Daily
Herald brought starkly home to its readers the news that the nation- alised transport services had increased their annual deficit from £4 million to £20 million. The headline......
A Spectator's Notebook
A T the opening session of the Labour Party conference a Mr. Crisp, according to The Times," said he had found it awkward not being able to tell reporters in a few words exactly......
" A Play Which Portrays Labour Ministers As Willing To
win votes at the price of imperilling national security cannot be excused by the label ' comedy,' " observed the Daily Herald in an apoplectic review of Mr. Val Gielgud's Party......
I Doubt If Anybody Grudges The Farm-worker The Extra Six
shillings a week which he is almost certain to get in November. But I equally doubt whether, at his present minimum rate of 94/-, he is being underpaid, as soldiers and sailors......
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