24 JANUARY 1947, page 5

How 1o Produce

A NYONE who does not know what is necessary to put the British economy on its feet has only himself to blame. He has been told often enough. In fact, anyone who is not rather......

Having Said Something Last Week About The Three Or Four

hundred thousand people who are parasitically employed in the betting industry (" industry" is an obvious misnomer, but I use the word for the lack of a better), I am glad to......

Readers Of This Column Will Not Be Unfamiliar With The

aims and claims of that aspiring organisation, the London College of Theology. I am interested--aarl ucg dissatisfied—to note that a special committee of the United Pree Church......

I Am Not Surprised That The Treasury Has Called For

a rather sharp revision of the arrangement by which passengers on the ' Queen Eliza- beth' could cash cheques up to Lim at the branch of the Midland Bank on board the vessel to......

A Spectator 's Notebook

T HE world will soon be rather full of lives of Mr. (or, to be strictly accurate, Earl) Lloyd George. The first of the new ones to ap- pear is already in the Spring Lists. The......

"the Biggest Headache Of All," I Read, " Is Man-power."

Regarding which it can only be said that man-power is not a headache at all, big, little or medium-sized. If anyone wants to talk about headaches in this connection, let him at......

The Presence Of Two Simons Among The Twelve Apostles Must

occasionally have caused confusion, but at least they both had secondary names (or in one case a principal name) to distinguish them. The two Simons in the House of Lords—for I......

In His Speech On War Memorials In The House Of

Lords on Wednesday Lord Chatfield dwelt more on what we should com- memorate—there is little room for disagreement here—than on the much more vexed question of how to......