20 DECEMBER 1963, page 5

Political Commentary

The State of the Tory Party By DAVID WATT IT'S really the strangest feature of the present poli- tical situation that the Labour Party, with an 8 per cent lead in the opinion......

Aftermath

hc: T HE ghosts walked in the Denning debate on Monday in the House of Commons. Ward is dead, Keeler in prison, Profumo disgraced. From below the gangway Harold Macmillan......

Half A Census

F OR over 150 years, since 1801, the census has been taken every tenth year except for 1941. The main disadvantage has been that the analy- sis of the mass of figures obtained......