16 SEPTEMBER 1972, page 11

Auberon Waugh On

two women gold medallists. • • Like many men, I imagine, I was most excited to read in my newspaper recently that certain types of contraceptive pill have the additional effect......

. . . And A Lord In Waiting

The political and literary worlds were almost equally amazed last April to discover that a poet had been appointed to a job in the Conservative government. Both knew that......