11 JUNE 1965, page 7

Is One Enough?

The sudden illness, and the probable absence from the House of Commons for some months, of a Scottish Labour Member of Parliament is grim proof of the truth of a sentence in the......

Spectator's Notebook

F OR an aimless occupation on part of a wet Whit Monday I recommend browsing through the return of general election expenses now pub- lished for all candidates. Most money seems......

Mortgages At 7 Per Cent

One of the largest building societies raises it. rates for new mortgages to 7 per cent and Mr. Crossman's rescue act becomes politically more urgent and less realistic. The cut......

Lessons From Lowell

From MURRAY KE.MPTON NEW YORK T has been a week notable for its parts of speech, old-fashioned and new. The poet Robert Lowell sent to President Johnson this let- ter regretting......

'olitical Commentary

Mac Wilsonism By ALAN WATKINS W ITH every week that passes, Mr. Harold Wilson reminds one more and more of Harold Macmillan in his last phase. There ' the same reluctance to......

Men Of Skye

My sympathies on the whole are with the men of Skye who succeeded for one day in ousting the American skymen from the lead story in The Times. True, I have never put foot on......