The Ironical Thing Is That The Government Could Not, And
knows that it could not, run the country if it did not itself rely extensively on the principle of " tied " cottages. Almost none of its agencies, from the Foreign Office to the......
A Man I Knew, Who Commands A Territorial Infantry Battalion,
took his horse out on a recent exercise, which was held in country unsuitable for the vehicle with which the Army pro- vides him. " There may," he told me afterwards, " have......
Homework For Politicians
HE holiday task with which the Chancellor of the Exchequer has sent the Members of Parliament home for ten weeks is a stiff one. Any of them who may at first have been tempted......
If A Man Accepts A Job As A Cowman, Moves
into the cowman's cottage and then decides to go and work for bigger money in a nearby factory or (as happened the other day to a cowman I khow) wins £50,000 in a football pool,......
The Disadvantage Of Being Ruled By Doctrinaires, Most Of...
town-bred, is well exemplified by the question of " tied " cottages, to which at the week-end 'Dr. Dalton made some characteristically statesmanlike references. The principle......
I Strongly Sympathise With Lord Kinross's Suggestion,...
letter to The Times this week, that passports should have more pages in them. My current one, like its predecessor, is already double-yolked ; that is to say, it consists of two......
A Spectator's Notebook
T HOUGH it is a pretty good waste of time arguing with the Russians, who only get indignant if you question their assertion that (for instance) black is white, one point in......
Until I Read Black Friday, A Pamphlet Published By The
National Union of Protestants, I had not realised how many of our troubles were due to the fact that Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh visited the Pope in the Vatican......
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