4 MARCH 1966, page 9

Short Commons I Referred Last Week To The Government Chief

Whip's warning to Labour MPs invited to appear on television, and suggested that Mr. Short had succeeded in persuading the BBC to withdraw an invitation to Mr. Tom Driberg to......

Spectator's Notebook

I T'S a little bit odd to find a Labour Chancellor taking £17 million out of the pockets of improvident punters, doubtless living in furnished rooms and gambling with next......

George's Warning

I don't normally expect to find myself agreeing with the far left general secretary of ASSET, the foremen's trade union, Mr. Clive Jenkins; but in his campaign against Mr.......

Fluoridation

What is the election going to be about? The cost of living? Rhodesia? Mr. Wilson? If that extraordinary fringe lobby, the anti-fluorida- tionists, have their way. it will be......

Dissent I'm Not Surprised That As The Prime Minister Sees

his Rhodesian policy collapsing about him, he's decided that the best form of defence is attack. For the duration of the election campaign, it's clear, his refrain is going to......

The Tory Task - 2 Disraeli Up-to-date

By NORMAN ST. JOHN-STEVAS, MP p ou rricAL parties. like politicians, are nar- cissists. They like to see themselves. The Tories today need a contemporary version of Disraeli's......

Let Them Drink Gin • Shades Of General Jack D.

Ripper, who, in Dr. Strangelove. pressed the nuclear button be- cause he believed that the Communists were rendering him sexually impotent by poisoning the water supply. The......