24 AUGUST 1996, page 14

Too Close For Comfort

Peter Mandelson is honoured to have the ear of his party's leader, says Alfred Sherman. That's why he had better watch his back THE Conservatives are in trouble for demonising......

Just Good Friends

The chief of a justice commission is a freemason. That's all right, says Paul Pickering (who isn't one) PETER SELLERS was a freemason. So states the Grand Lodge in a recent pam-......