Spectator's Notebook
DURING his recent visit among the lawyers Mr. rrn Wilson announced that law reform would be given pride of place in the first session of legislation if his party was returned to......
Come To The Fair
As one of the features of the World Book Fair, it was good to see that this week T. S. Eliot was asked to award the 1964 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for poetry. Not exactly a......
How Long Is Life?
The Rivonia trial seemed to prove many things, some of, them almost inconvenient to those who protested in advance. Judge de Wet is not a stooge of the South African Govern-......
Who's A Tory Now?
There are many other unobjectionable and non- party suggestions: the Court of Criminal Appeal should be upgraded to become a division of the Court of Appeal, no one should serve......
Arabian Flights
By DESMOND DONNELLY, MP rr HE Foreign Minister said, 'Britain has to I learn to win the friendship of the Arabs. She has three interests in the Middle East—oil, trade and......
John Bull's First Job
Safe and Respectable By GEORGE SCOTT Y ou bite your nails,' said the bank manager. He was not asking me, he was telling me. 'We can't have anyone working in the bank who bites......
Ask Ernie Appendix 4 Of The Report On ,road Pricing,
published by the Ministry of Transport, opens thus: Consider a road network in which a parking tax of ti per p.c.u. is imposed on every journey, • non-parking traffic being......
Clean Hands
I return briefly to the subject of 'personal hygiene.' So many correspondents have written to me to say that my advice to rinse the hands whenever possible after defecation is......
De Mortuls Nil Nisi Politics
Obituary notices in The Times may seem at first sight an unlikely medium for party politics. Little did I know. In the issue of June 4 E. W. writes of Sir Henry Spencer, of......