5 NOVEMBER 1965, page 7

Political Commentary

The Emergence of Mr. Wilson By ALAN WATKINS MHE place was the television room of the I Grand Hotel, Brighton, during the Conserva- tive party conference; the time, around 9.30......

The Kleptomaniacs I've Written Before In This Notebook...

Unreliability of the postal service, but the latest, most fantastic example is, I submit, an egg-sized jewel in this depressing GPO showcase. The tale is quite simple—a new......

Pqs Dr. King, The New Speaker Of The House Of

Commons, has started with a batting average of over sixty for questions reached daily. A run a minute is excellent going. Happy faces all round except for a few bores, and......

Nlhf

The Quoodle column, as I explained patiently to Robin Day on BBC-2, is basically one man's enthusiasms and prejudices. It was the first of these that led me last weekend to......

Press Column Booker Is Writing A Book. It Hasn't Got

a title yet, but it will have by Friday. So, because his publisher is getting restive he is taking some time off to complete it. Charles Curran, starting next week, will......

Spectator's Notebook

Pr. Prime Minister did well in Salisbury last 1. week, despite the comedown later over the Royal Commission. It is a great pity that he could not have stayed longer. And if this......

Biggleswade

Some word that teems with hidden meaning.' Like Basingstoke, said Gilbert. Like Biggles- wade, say I. The place is becoming an obsession with me. Every time I drive down the Al......

Odds On The General No One At Least Can Be

contemplating writing The Making of the President in France. Readers should know, by now of the General's decision. Writing before his broadcast I find myself won- dering most......