25 MARCH 1966, page 22

Not So Queer

One in Twenty. By Bryan Magee. (Seeker and Warburg, 21s.) THE one in twenty of Mr. Magee's title repre- sents the supposed number of homosexuals— male and female—in our country.......

Retreat From Kabul

IGNOMINIOUS is not an epithet which the British, or indeed any other nation, care to apply to enterprises undertaken by their forebears, how- ever resoundingly these may have......