22 SEPTEMBER 1967, page 3

Processional

CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS Far-called, our freight trains start away Without a second man to drive And Sidney Greene declines to say If they are likely to arrive, While British Railways......

Mr Thorpe's Pilgrim Band

POLITICAL. COMMENTARY ALAN WATKINS Some years ago, in America, I would be asked perfunctorily about the operation of the British political system at local level. My questioners,......