23 NOVEMBER 1956, page 10

The Political Tight-rope

p OLITICS are about power. What should distinguish the House of Commons from the Oxford Union is not that its debates should be better but that something may happen as a result......

A Deb On 43rd Street

BY WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME I ARRIVED on Broadway, or on West 43rd Street. to be exact, for rehearsals 'of The Reluctant Debutante with Cassandra-like warnings ringing in my , ears.......