28 MAY 1965, page 6

Bridge Charges

Once upon a very long time ago . 1 used to play tournament bridge. For many years now I have played virtually no bridge at all: three times in five years, to be exact. But it is......

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......

Spectator's Notebook

J FORCE WOODCOCK replying to Nigel Lawson on the TV programme Gallery gave an answer equally remarkable for its fuzziness of words and its clarity of intent when he was asked......

Prunier Papers

The Prime Minister is adepteat emitting smoke- screens, but it is to be hoped that Mr. Bernard Braine will press his demand for a full inquiry into the affair of the lost......

Anti-business?

One convenient aspect of the Finance Bill (con- venient for the Government, I mean) is that its fearful complexity has successfully concealed much of its meaning from the......