A Spectator 's Notebook
T HE question, what's wrong with English (not British) cricket, takes a lot of answering, but that it should be put, and put frequently and forcibly, is inevitable. One simple......
I Shall Look Forward To The Observer's Reply Next Sunday
to the Daily Telegraph's comments on The Observer's announcement last Sunday of its Foreign Service in 1947. The Sunday paper has mobilised an impressive list of contributors......
With Mr. Seebahm Rowtntree's Pertinent Comments (in A...
Monday's Times) on the fact that at a time of an acute shortage of man-power something between 3oo,00o and 400,000 persons are employed in the betting trade I have the strongest......
Having Decided That The First Week In The Year Was
a good time for a sit-down strike I sat down very successfully somewhere in Dorset. The sedentary posture was not, in fact, incompatible with a good deal of locomotion, which......
The Case Of The Dean Of A Cambridge College Who
has taken his life in the past week because "he was being driven mad by insomnia" seems to me particularly distressing. Need this really happen to anyone? Prolonged insomnia, I......
Dr. J. A. Hutton Has Not Long Survived His Severance
from the British Weekly, the editorship of which he relinquished last September. It is as editor of that notable Free Church journal that he will mainly be remembered, but those......
Unions And Strikers
T HE different issues underlying the Transport Strike—which remains unsettled as this is written, though an early settlement seems probable—must be clearly distinguished. There......
The Death Of Mrs. Alfred Spender Snaps Another Link With
a notable past. Known best in latter years as J. A. Spender's devoted wife, she was made familiar years ago to a wider public thrtiugh R. L. Stevenson's letters. As May......
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