14 JANUARY 1966, page 10

Nine Per Cent Just Over A Year Ago, When The

Conservative party broke with precedent and sought a method of electing a future leader, I did my best to per- suade those concerned to adopt the system first described by the......

Spectator's Notebook

T HE first outcome of the French Presidential election, the Cabinet reshuffle that opens the General's second septennat, represents not so much an opening to the left as a......

Medicine Today

It is almost as difficult to find a good doctor as it is to find a satisfactory mechanic for one's car. Not that we all mean the same thing by a 'good' doctor anyway. My own......

Political Commentary

An Early Warning to George By ALAN WATKINS C OME months ago, in the course of a little- noticed speech at Weston-super-Mare, Mr. Enoch Powell criticised the Conservative party's......

Sporting Life I Don't Want To Strike A Sour Note,

but amidst all the justified rejoicing over England's first victory in Australia by an innings since before the war, it is as well to remember that the two teams are still much......

Walking Backwards We All Remember The Dramatic Story Of The

Anglo-Irish Free Trade Area negotiations; of how Mr. Wilson, 'having nothing to do,' casually wandered into Lancaster House around midnight to find the talks hopelessly bogged......