7 AUGUST 1971, page 7

Political Commentary Hugh Macpherson

There is no such thing as honest government.' For that matter there is no such thing as an honest person in anything other than a highly qualified sense of the word. Anyone......

Wedgwood Pink

For reasons, which are perhaps in the final analysis inscrutable, the UCS affair has done much to advance Mr Benn's standing inside the Labour party. He now has a solid base of......

Prisons

Parole on trial NORMAN FOWLER, MP For the last year or so the argument about prisons has concentrated upon finding alternatives to shutting men away. It has not always been the......