18 DECEMBER 1976, page 12

Lonely Shore

Patrick Cosgrave 'Those who live by patronage,' wrote Mr Alan Watkins in a celebrated piece on the dismissal of the late Michael Wolff from Conservative Central Office, 'will......

The Mad Professor

Christopher Booker The great debate over public spending becomes increasingly disconcerting. Indeed it is like nothing so much as one of those little plastic fairground toys......