30 OCTOBER 1964, page 7

Political Commentary

Anatomy of a Government By ALAN WATKINS N ow that the dust has settled in Whitehall, and we have been harrowed by stories of the Queen's Ministers sharing telephones and sitting......

The Reluctant Tories

By J. W. M. THOMPSON ISMISSED like a pregnant parlourmaid': such was the disgruntled remark attributed, at the time of Mr. Macmillan's great Cabinet purge of July 1962, to Dr.......

The Lib-lab Affair

By DESMOND DONNELLY, MP ORD MACAULAY, referring to the defeat of the Tory Government in November 1830, said: 'Dark and terrible beyond any season within my remembrance of......