5 FEBRUARY 1965, page 10

On Lobby Terms A Harrowing Picture Of The Conditions Under

which parliamentary journalists work is pre- sented in Partners in Parliament, a report by twelve members of the press gallery. I read of the plight of the Exchange Telegraph,......

Tailpiece So Many People Have So Many Different Ideas About

a suitable memorial for Sir Winston that I feel I should record a suggestion put to me on the steps of St. PAl's after the service. It is that, when the rebuilding is complete......

Spectator's Notebook

rTHERE has never been such a funeral service I before. There will never be again. It was splendid and solemn, but it was also glorious and triumphant. There was nothing here for......

Instant Government No One, I Think, Is A More Acute

observer of contemporary British life than Mr. John Crosby, of the New York Herald-Tribune. Whether he comments on the dazzling plumage of Chelsea birds or what was really said......

A Place In My Mind

The Liverpool Scene By ALUN OWEN 1 Vs a Liverpool pub and it's Saturday morning., IA long bar with a special clock, special because instead of having numbers around its face it......

Hors Concours Several Light-years Ago I Presented Their...

the Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year—Gordon Pirie and Pat Smythe. No applications need be submitted for 1965. No pos- sible achievement could match my own per- formance in......

Take Us To Your Leader The National Opinion Poll Has

received so many bouquets from me that it must not mind one brickbat. No, not about their Leyton fore- cast, although that was so far from the result that NOP have had to......

Rab

Within four days came the funeral service of Sir Winston, the memorial service to Lord Woolton, and the announcement of the retire- ment of Mr. R. A. Butler from party politics......