The Exemption Of A Street Car Named Desire From...
Duty raises more interesting questions than I recently suggested. The clause in the Finance Act, 1946, making provision for such exemption enacts that the duty shall not be......
Some People Have Constitutional Minds, Some Not. Those...
were almost galvanised with astonishment when they heard the Minister of 'Transport, in the debate on the Festival of Britain on Wednesday, referring lightly to the projected......
The Groundnuts Calamity
T HE debate on the groundnuts question in the House of Commons on Monday was little more satisfactory than the situation that gave rise to it. The debate originated in the......
A Spectator's Notebook
I T is, I suppose, inevitable that in the present circumstances the Burnham Committee should have rejected the appeal of the teachers' panel (the committee consists of a......
Mr. Dalton Is The Latest Minister To Sink To The
silly recreation of gibing at the Press. It might have been supposed that his own contact with the Press on one notorious occasion would teach him some discretion in that field......
As Advertisements In The Spectator And Other Papers Have...
a set of applications for Professorial posts at the new North Stafford- shire University College has been lost. That at least is how I should put it. The advertisement actually......
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Scanning the front page of the Daily Express one day this week, I observed for the first time under the title a notice: "Controlling Shareholder Lord Beaverbrook." I might have......
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