24 JANUARY 1987, page 20

A Stately Dame In Flux

The press: Paul Johnson argues that a change at the New Yorker is overdue `GOVERNMENTS are born to die,' Lord Beaverbrook once observed cheerfully. He might have added, so are......

Desmond Williams

Peregrine Worsthorne remembers a much-loved historian and eccentric WHEN a friend telephoned to tell me that Desmond Williams had died, it took me a moment to realise that this......