16 OCTOBER 1964, page 10

The Real Lesson?

By ALAN WATKINS A Li- that remains is for the party workers to knock up the voters; and then, for a few hours, the officials come into their own. The local bank employees count......

News Value

Of all the irrelevancies, the most ridiculous, to my mind, was the eager exploitation of Mr. Hogg's hasty aside to a heckler about adultery. By some miracle of journalistic......

Mob Tactics

The ugly appearance of the shouting-down technique at meetings has symbolised, in an ex- tremist way, the noisy confusion of the cam- paigns. Tempers ought to rise somewhat......

The Don't Cares One Effect Of This Sort Of Propagandist

excess, I fear, is that it furthers the estrangement between the electorate and politics which has been de- plored from many quarters in recent years. People complain that they......

A Spectator's Notebook Most People Will Be Glad When It

is all over, for it has not been a very satis- factory ' general election. There has been too much confusion of issues. Too many irrelevancies have obscured the argument. Too......