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The cellars of the Commons are a bit over' crowded at the moment. The problem is the pile of substantial cardboard boxes, each weighing 46 pounds avoirdupois and containing documents printed on Plain inexpensive paper of such volume that te purchase them costs in the region of £130' They are the EEC regulations. To issti,e them to MPs will cost more than £90,00u. start demanding so deteriorate. t If the Lords and Civil Servants ta demanding their copies, even Eurofanatics may think it cheaper to stay out of the Market than supply them. Where do top Permanent Under-secretarie5 exchange confidences. Is it over an elegant glass of port in the Athenaeum? Is it. perhaps in Simpson's in the Strand? Not OL all. The Cabinet Office canteen is the Place and I can reveal that one of their number much prefers a glass of beer and .a sand' wich at his desk. Tom Puzzle regards this as being exceedingly vulgar and jittle wonders why we lost an Empire wiin Members must not be surprised at thi,e, sight of an unfamiliar vicar who wa around the corridors with that peculied' gait favoured by high Roman clerics eri, sufferers from painful spinal diseases. It the newly appointed Speaker's Chaplain,' the Rev Canon Edwards of St Margaret'', Westminster. Mr Edwards had a academic career, obtaining a First in History at Magdalen and becoming „fit Fellow of All Souls. He is held in gre' regard by the Archbishop of CanterburY, and is hotly tipped for a See (probabl,Ye Durham) when he has stayed a respectabl length of time at St Margaret's.
Canon Edwards is a godly young raealls who frowns on sinners. For a while he W; mistaken for a rather trendy churchlbili, when, as editor of the SCM press, he 105,o ded over the publication of Honest e God. But this, apparently, was because Pci had a good eye for a bestseller — ago why should the devil have all the be,r, businessmen? He soon put such lei reverent associations behind him arld,,s„is off to be Dean of King's, Cambridge.1"re was not to his taste, for the Fellows Ilinot are said to be a merry, undevout and Ili, to say peculiar bunch. Soon he put tb.,is,if, reverence behind him and went to St In garet's where, it is said, he conductsio lovely wedding. So he patiently avirIttie elevation and while one cannot commit,ie Church Triumphant in Heaven, Tom can safely say that the more Establishrri'ro members of the Church Militant on enfle are happy at his glowing prospects, would be so reliable in an abdication 0.15 4ti14 Why is Terence Lancaster gho-,,o Marcia Williams' Memoirs rather Walter Terry?
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