21 JANUARY 1978, page 14

Liberals After The Pact

Jo Grimond Nothing could suit television news and the sub-editors of many newspapers better than the Liberal Special Assembly. It will be visible. It has no tiresome......

Man Of Misery

Christopher Booker Early in 1882, Richard Wagner was in Palermo. At the age of sixty-eight he had just completed his last great work, Parsifal. He had scarcely a year left to......