25 JANUARY 1957, page 12

Toiling In The Rear

By ANTHONY HARTLEY ? inte llectuals word Fabian used to invoke a vision of I intellectuals scrutinising narrowly the prob- lems of our time and suggesting solutions for them......

City And Suburban

By JOHN BETJ EMAN L AST week I was at a function in the vast Grosvenor Room of the Grand Hotel, Bir- mingham. What Conservative and Liberal cigar- smoke, I thought, must have......