7 OCTOBER 1966, page 8

The Umbilical Cord

By NIGEL LAWSON I T is a common conceit of writers on contem- porary events to suppose that one is living through some great historical turning point. All the same, a better......

A Spectator's Notebook

Myself, I'm not sorry that the amateurs have failed. They had probably lost heart anyhow, after a recent encounter with one of the most eminent of all Conservatives, whose......