28 MAY 1965, page 5

Political Commentary

The Crosland Consensus By ALAN WATKINS D ESPITE what one occasionally reads about new initiatives and firm, purposeful govern- ment, Mr. Harold Wilson's current object is......

France The General's Grand Tour

DREW MIDDLETON writes from Paris: It is all so familiar. The practised gestures. The move into the crowd to grasp eager hands. The speeches; all essentially the same with their......

Women Wave Your Orange Flags

iIII,ARY SPURLING writes: `Acting, handicrafts, lectures, yes, But best of all the togetherness,' runs the rhyme of the • Women's Institutes, who were gorging their fill of the......

Giles Playfair Writes:

Those three bugbears of the British press— libel, contempt of court and the Official Secrets Acts—are the subject of a report by a working party, which `Justice' set up a few......