A Conservative For No Very Obscure Reason, This Week I
have been reminded of the Book of Enoch, which readers will doubtless' recall ranks among the most important of all the apocryphal Biblical writings. 1 turned to the very......
Who Done It?
It is always pleasant to let a minority opinion be heard, on this question of literary provenance or any other. So I reproduce a piece of elucida- tion offered to me by 'a......
Towards A Concert Of Powers?
From BERTRAND DE JOUVENEL Im dividin g line between Russian and Western forces at the end of the war in Europe soon hardened into a political frontier. Communist regimes were......
Alfred Duggan In A Week Obsessed With The Present And
the immediate future, the death of Alfred Duggan made little mark. He wrote of the distant past. The art of the historical novelist is difficult and uncommon. Duggan wrote......
Uncomfortable Seats I Noticed That Mr. Wilson, In His Most
measured manner, taunted the Government for not holding by-elections in any of the seats now vacant. There seemed to be a further strong argu- ment here in favour (from the......
Spectator's Notebook
HAD I been asked this week (I wasn't) I would have been for an elec- tion in June. Not every- one agrees, all too evi- dently. But: 'What is so rare as a day in June? Then, if......
Let's Go To 1945 Mr. Wilson's Meeting At The Albert
Hall on Sunday was a fervent occasion. Lord Attlee was sitting on the platform, silent and enigmatic, to give substance to Mr. Wilson's invocation of the spirit of 1945. (Mr.......
Change At The Tate The News Of Sir John Rothenstein's
forthcom- ing retirement from the Tate Gallery is sad: but it is hard not to feel that the achievements of who- ever succeeds him will appear even greater. Sir John goes at a......
Tailpiece Leadership Problems Bedevil Politics At...
George Brown turned to quotation to taunt the Tories this week— 'Those behind cried Forward ! And those before cried Back!' But he seemed to think it had some- thing to do with......
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