27 SEPTEMBER 1957, page 5

A Spectator's Notebook

I DOUBT WHETHER Mr. Tom Dri- berg's discovery of two extremely partisan political circulars emanat- ing from the office of the Adminis- trative Secretary of Cyprus caused any......

C°m11/41mercial 'television Received More Kicks Than...

on its second birth- da y , including a long leader in the Manchester G uardian denouncing 'advertising magazines.' or the benefit of those of you who are lucky t n uugh to have......

I Find The Twelfth Report Of That Estimable Insti- Tution

the Nuffield Foundation a little dis- appointing. When funds of this nature are 'available, I would expect them to be devoted to those fields where the need is greatest : either......

I Suppose One Should Learn By Experience, But I Have

to admit I came within an ace of missing the new Chaplin film A King in New York after reading (and being depressed by) the reviews. I got the impression that those writers who......

With Respect, I Suggest That The Leader Writer In The

Manchester Guardian is wrong. Advertising in programmes, whether it is presented honestly as such or not, is forbidden by the Act. True, the Act allows advertising where it has......

Political Commentary

And so to Brighton THE most memorable thing about the Liberal Party Assembly at Southport was the breakfast bacon at my hotel; crisp without being burnt, correctly apportioned......

What With All The Fuss About Ghana, We Have Not

been hearing much about a worse deprivation of liberty: the suppression of some newspapers the news agencies in Indonesia. I am glad to hear that, just as the Ghana Bar......