29 SEPTEMBER 1967, page 7

Table Talk

DENIS BROGAN That's the end of an Auld Sang.' Lord Bel- haven's famous comment on the end of the Scottish Estates on the union of the Parlia- ments of Scotland and England in......

King's Move

THE PRESS DONALD McLACIILAN Believe it or not, there was a time when one man could—or believed he could—edit a national newspaper and the Encyclopaedia Britannica......

Attractive People

SPIES GEOFFREY MeDERMOTT Many of my best friends are spies, or spooks as the Americans call them. There are two good reasons for this. My Foreign Office duties for a decade or......