3 MARCH 1967, page 2

Defence And The Constitution

$ Every Government has its little local diffi- ulties. But Mr Wilson would be ill-advised to augh off the abstention by some four dozen abour members in this week's defence de-......

British Museum Blues

`Yesterday ! What does that mean? Yester- day?' That means that bloody awful day, long ago, before this bloody awful day.' So Samuel Beckett, summing up prophetically for the......

Time For A Change

This week's issue of the SPECTATOR has been redesigned, with the expert help of Geoffrey Cannon, from cover to cover. On the front we have reverted to the traditional format for......

Portrait Of The Week

MR WILSON had a Dutch treat, returning from The Hague 'very considerably encouraged' about Britain's prospects in the Common Market: many others were pessimistic, however, and......