22 APRIL 1972, page 7

Strange Cabinet

Maurice Macmillan has survived his swift baptism under fire remarkably well. It cannot have been easy for him, conducting admirably his first set of important and delicate......

People You'd Expect

Although the closing date for applications for the position of Editor of the New Statesman is not until Friday of this week, by Friday of last week a short-list of five had been......

Chapel Three, Board Trio

At this point, things could start going wrong. It seems most unlikely to me that any sixteen journalists, let alone sixteen left-wing, political, literary, conspiratorial,......

Laborious Conclave

And out of it all, who will emerge the victor? One certain factor: the Board is now desperately anxious to get a new editor as soon as possible, if only to regain control of the......