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The power that lies in a Prime Minister's hands is not a toy given to him by the nation at a general election, to be played with as he sees fit. Nor is the legislative authority...

I commend politicians to pay very close at- tention to the leading article in last week's Sunday Express.: 'Before there can be any question of Britain joining the Common Market...

I now hear from all sides that the Prime N I Mister really is determined to go ahead on the Common Market, come what may. This intelligence proceeds alike from the soft- centred...

The press has behaved lamentably over the Paris trip. It allowed itself to be carried away. Fortunately, there are members of Parliament who are made of sterner stuff. We still...

And there is a great deal of it,around. it is difficult offhand to recall a time when the establishment

The popular press, students of form (and members of Parliament with shaky con- stituencies and with no steadfast rock-like certainty of re-election) may care to note, is not...

By now the Apostle Peter Jenkins is so car- ried away by the occasion that his command of English deserts him entirely and. he com- mits a splendid solecism: He continues, still...

One quality of a religious fanatic is the loss of all sense of proportion : great and small matters are seen in the blinding light of unreason to be the same size. Thus one also...

Chronically Sick and Dis- abled Persons' Bill and all the conquering altruists who had burned Westminster's mid- night oil to get it through whooped it up with a well-justified...

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to complain? K. T. Moore 20 Queenborough Gardens, Ilford If this is so and if M Pompidou is planning to make some sort of bargain with Mr Heath under which he makes some...

Mr Rippon seems to have been satisfied with a general assurance that all Com- monwealth developing countries would get some trade concessions. Unless Mr Heath is prepared to...